superheng Christian Watson is hoping to shake off the recurring injuries that plagued him last season after learning the root cause of his problems. superheng
Green Bay Packers wide receiver Christian Watson, 25, hopes to bounce back from a hamstring injury that has plagued him in 2023 by working on his strength this offseason, NFL Network reports. ( superheng )
Watson, a former second-round draft pick in the 2022 class, missed eight games last season with a hamstring injury, and the 25-year-old wide receiver headed to the University of Wisconsin this offseason to work with researchers who study hamstring injuries in elite football players in hopes of pinpointing the underlying cause of his recurring injury.
The 25-year-old wide receiver revealed during the Packers’ offseason that much of his issues could be attributed to strength imbalances in his legs, with his right leg, which has been injured for a long time, having a 20 percent difference in strength at the time, which can cause a lot of problems if a player doesn’t fully recover from the initial injury.
“For me, it’s really just the asymmetry between my legs,” Watson said. “It comes from a number of things. Obviously, the issues I’ve had in the past with my hamstrings haven’t fully recovered from those strong guys. So I’ve been attacking the strong side of it, trying to get the symmetry back, and it’s huge for me. I feel really good about it. I just have to keep working on it.”
‘I obviously have a little bit more of a slump on my right leg (compared to) my left,’ Watson said. ‘One, it puts a lot of stress on the left side, and the left side has been through a lot. And two, obviously when you’re trying to have equal power, obviously it puts a lot more stress on something that’s not as strong. ‘
‘That’s the number one thing for me because it leads to fatigue as well. It’s a bad place to be in. That’s definitely my number one goal to eliminate that.’
