Former Eagles football player awarded 43.5 million dollars in court due to improper care of his knee injury
Former standout special teams ace and safety Chris Maragos would have loved to watch his Eagles win the Super Bowl last night, but he won a huge victory today.
According to reports, Chris Maragos was awarded 43.5 million dollars for the premature and unecessary end to his NFL career due to the improper care of his right knee.
Maragos was undrafted in the 2010 NFL Draft. He signed with the San Francisco 49ers out of college. Maragos would go on to a stellar career with the Eagles, after a short stint with the Seahawks.
After nearly two weeks of testimony and over a dozen witnesses in a Philadelphia City Hall courtroom, Common Pleas Judge Charles J. Cunningham III turned to the jury who awarded the safety a huge win.
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Maragos was injured during a punt return in an October 2017 game against the Carolina Panthers. An MRI the next day showed a torn posterior cruciate ligament, or PCL. The imaging also showed other injuries to structures in his knee.
In the year following his injury, Maragos’ meniscus moved out of place. Whether that had anything to do with an untreated tear in the root of his meniscus, and the extent of the tear, were central to lawyers’ arguments.
The Eagles team doctors were hit and lost today. They took two losses, two days in a row.
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