Previously posted BY DAVID J. NEAL DNEAL@MIAMIHERALD.COM, 9.16.10
A black cast consumed Jared Odrick's lower left leg. Between the cast and crutches, it was hard to believe the Dolphins' first-round pick could miss as few as two games with a fractured fibula.
"Don't let it fool you,'' Odrick said of the cast. "It's there for protection more than anything.''
Odrick saw Dr. Robert Alexander of Charlotte, N.C., who performed running back Ronnie Brown's lisfranc surgery last season. Sources said Alexander told Odrick he probably would miss two games.
This isn't the first time Odrick broke that fibula. As a Penn State sophomore playing Indiana in 2007, he broke it in such a way that doctors had to insert a still-present metal plate in the leg.
Odrick's absences gives Tony McDaniel a bump up to the first team and possibly a long desired doubling of McDaniel's play count. He said he got into just over 20 plays Sunday in Buffalo, N.Y.
"Last game was the most I've ever played,'' McDaniel said. "It seemed like [he played more in 2009] it because when I get out there, I make plays, but I never played more than 20 snaps."
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