Horrific, But Hilarious: Oklahoma DT Isaiah Coe Recounts Gruesome Thumb Injury

NORMAN – Oklahoma defensive sort out Isaiah Coe is likely one of the staff’s extra recognizable figures.

A 6-foot-2 and 305 kilos, Coe isn’t arduous to overlook on the sphere together with his play model and large character matching his measurement.

Earlier this season, in a highway contest at Iowa State, Coe exited the sport with an undisclosed damage.

The Illinois native then triggered a little bit of a stir on Twitter after the sport, when he revealed to the world that had witnessed one in all his bones protruding of the pores and skin – which he merely thought was “cool.”

The damage wound up being to his proper thumb, an damage that did not price him any video games.

That just about concludes the quantity of information most exterior this system knew about what had precisely occurred to Coe’s thumb – till this week.

The former junior school switch spoke to the media following follow on Monday evening in Norman, and gladly crammed everybody in on the sequence of occasions – in hysterical style.

“I’m going to take y’all through when it happened,” Coe started. “It happened during the Iowa State game. I hit my head. So the trainers, they came up to me and they were saying, ‘Oh, we were trying to get your head, trying to focus on your head.’ ‘My head is good. But I really need y’all to look at my thumb because my thumb looks unusually big.’ They just kept looking at my head. ‘My head is OK. ‘Y’all really need to look at my thumb. I promise you my head is OK.’ So they finally took the glove off and then we just saw a big bone sticking out the side of my hand. I was really calm about it. Everybody else was really panicking. But I was really calm. We went back into the locker room and took x-rays and all that.

“I had put out a tweet. Everybody was getting on me like I was really tripping. I said I saw my bone. But I really thought it was cool that I saw my bone. The bone wasn’t fractured, it was just dislocated. So they just popped it back in in the locker room and sewed it up. I thought it was cool. I can really walk around and say that I saw the inside of my hand. I thought that was pretty cool.”

Somewhat amazingly, Coe was capable of play by the damage with a big forged on his hand, returning to motion the very subsequent week in opposition to Baylor.

Part of what made the method simpler was that the OU defensive sort out had some expertise enjoying with a forged prior due to an damage sustained in highschool.

“It wasn’t that hard because I played with a cast in high school because I broke my wrist,” Coe stated. “And so it was really just getting back. That first game, the Baylor game, was probably the hardest just because it was the first game using it. Still had to work out the kinks. I kind of used it in practice, but they were trying to keep me really safe. So when I really went out there for the Baylor game, it was really my first real time like, really using it in a real game. So when I went out there it kind of went the way it went. But really, from the next game on I was really used to it and I was back to being my normal self.”

Coe stated because the weeks glided by, he steadily turned increasingly more efficient enjoying by the damage.

After recording no tackles in opposition to the Bears, he went for 3 and 5 the subsequent two weeks in opposition to West Virginia and Oklahoma State.

Now, with lower than per week earlier than the Sooners’ ultimate recreation of the season in opposition to No. 13 Florida State within the Cheez-It Bowl, Coe says he’s again to one hundred pc.

“I’m finally back,” Coe stated. “Got each of my fingers. I’ll have each of my fingers for the bowl recreation. So I’m ready. I bought somewhat safety underneath right here. But I’m good to go for the bowl recreation.”

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