Report: Texans’ J.J. Watt played with five torn core muscles in 2015

According to a report, Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt played with five torn core muscles during the 2015 season.

J.J. Watt is one of the most dominant players to ever play the game of football With three Defensive Player of the Year awards, Watt has tied an NFL record and he’s on pace to become one of the most legendary players to play the game if he isn’t already.

In 2015, Watt had yet another incredible year and racked up 17.5 sacks and never missed one single game. While those stats alone are impressive as is, Watt played with five torn core muscles in 2015, according to ESPN’s Tania Ganguli.

In further detail, the whole thing sounds absolutely painful and it was a miracle that he could even walk, let alone be the terrifying defensive player in the league.

"According to a source, Watt had a partially torn right adductor longus, a fully torn left adductor longus and a fully torn left adductor pectineus in his inner thighs and groin.But he also had partial tears in his left and right abdominals.Some of those tears happened early in the season."

Add in the broken hand that Watt suffered at the end of the season, then Watt might just not be human. For a normal man, all of these injuries would have ended a player’s season. Instead, Watt just got better and had yet another season for the record books.

If all of that isn’t terrifying enough for opposing quarterbacks, consider the fact that if Watt is healthy, he might leave even more devastating hits on quarterbacks. Watt has always led by example in Houston and with his ability to play through all those painful injuries, it goes to show the lengths that he will go to win a football game.

It’s that drive that has made him one of the greatest ever.

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