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Greg_A_Bedard:
Bigby will have surgery tomorrow on his ankle for a second time. McCarthy didn't know whether it will be season ending [via Twitter]
Thursday August 5, 2010 10:48 Greg_A_Bedard
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Greg_A_Bedard:
If he's not out on injured reserve, he'll at least start on PUP. [via Twitter]
Thursday August 5, 2010 10:49 Greg_A_Bedard
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TomSilverstein:
Bigby had actually passed the conditioning test but ankle got sore after and he was flunked on physical. [via Twitter]
Thursday August 5, 2010 11:12 TomSilverstein
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TomSilverstein:
There's a shot he's put for the year but surgery will determine that.

Atari Bigby will have ankle surgery on Friday
Posted by Mike Florio on August 5, 2010 12:14 PM ET
Packers safety Atari Bigby missed the Packers' entire offseason program as he resisted signing his restricted free agency tender. When he signed the tender last week and showed up, he was asked to take a conditioning test. While doing so, he injured an ankle that previously had been surgically repaired.

As it turns out, he'll be having surgery again. (As best we can tell, the looming surgery was first reported by Greg Bedard of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.)

A league source tells us that, on Friday, Dr. Robert Anderson will perform an arthroscopic procedure on Bigby's ankle. Bigby is expected to miss a few weeks.

A couple of years ago, Bigby was emerging as one of the top young safeties in the game. Since then, injuries have prevented him from fulfilling his potential.

Clever. Hold out the entire offseason, sign a multi-million-dollar tender, get hurt your very first day back, sit out the season on injured reserve, and collect every penny. It's tantamount to fraud.

"Nonstopdrivel" wrote:

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"Tezzy" wrote: