Jordyn Tyson seemingly accomplished his goal of proving he's healthy going into the NFL Draft during his private workout. The workout showed current health, but what it can't do is calm concerns of Tyson's injury history. If you take a look back at the New Orleans Saints' history in the draft, his injury history would play a minor role, at best, in their decision to draft Tyson.
Tyson's past ailments are well documented. He's dealt with a hamstring injury for the last five months. It cut his final collegiate season short and kept him out of the NFL Scouting Combine. Prior to that, Tyson suffered a torn ACL, MCL and PCL in 2022 and a broken collarbone in 2024.
It is worth noting that Tyson returned from ACL surgery then played in 2024 and 2025. That's not to sway how much weight you should place on a previous ACL injury. It is to say we've already seen how he recovered from that surgery. Unlike a prospect recovering from an ACL injury, we don't have speculate what Tyson will look like post-surgery.
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Some teams would be scared off by Tyson's line of injuries. Seeing that he's dealt with it in each of the last three seasons he's played, it's easy to see why the concern would be there. The Saints have proven themselves to be willing to take these risks, however.
Tyson had a lingering hamstring injury. That was just one bad hamstring injury, but Marshon Lattimore had multiple hamstring injuries in college. Tyson doesn't seem to have a hamstring issue like Lattimore did. That didn't deter the Saints from scooping him up in the first round.
Tyler Shough broke his collarbone twice. Shough wasn't a first round pick, but the importance of the quarterback cancels out when he was selected. The Saints viewed Shough as a potential franchise quarterback with those injuries. They're certainly capable of looking past it.
The science behind recovering from an ACL surgery has advanced so far that it isn't nearly the crippling injury it used to be. Additionally, Tyson has already shown what kind of player he is after the ACL surgery. He rose to prominence after the surgery. In the same vein, the collarbone didn't seem to impact Tyson's early production in 2025.
Not only have the Saints picked prospects with injury history early, they've picked prospects with these exact injuries. When you put Tyson's response to injury with the Saints prioritizing talent over being afraid of potential injury, it's hard to see the team taking Tyson off their board, because they won't do it due to talent.
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