Our doctors took a swab of it and it takes 48 hours to get the confirmed test back that it's MRSA; and within 48 hours Brandon was already in the hospital. So we didn't know that's what it was.

It's typical that as the weeks go by, the cast gets smaller.

Knowing Jon, he might have taken it off.

He had a huge open wound on his leg. We're ... watching it very closely. We don't want to take any chances with an infection.

He had some roughness behind his knee cap and it was cleaned out.

It's healing, everything is on track. Our plan is just to leave it alone.

Without a doubt he'll play with it.

There's a lot to be enthused about. We saw him [Sunday] and [yesterday] started working with him, and his MRI showed he just had some superficial fibers of the MCL stretched, and all the other ligaments of his knee and his meniscus looked good. We'll just take it day-to-day and see how he does. I think he's got a good chance of getting ready for the game.

I wouldn't expect him to do much in the way of practice.