Former 5-Star WR Jurrion Dickey on Recovering From Injury
Oregon Ducks wide receiver Jurrion Dickey discusses recovering from injury during his freshman season.
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00:00 So you came in injured, how injured and how healthy do you feel like you are now?
00:05 I feel like I'm 100% right now. I came in pretty well off, like a little bit where I couldn't run as much, but it came in and got better.
00:13 Do you feel like you've been completely healthy for a while now?
00:15 Yeah, I feel like I've been completely healthy probably about like a month, so yeah.
00:20 Was it frustrating obviously coming in your freshman year and wanting to make a big impact and kind of show your skill set and you were just kind of limited when you got here?
00:28 Yeah, it was frustrating, but you just got to go through it sometimes. Things hit you and you just got to bounce back from it.
00:33 And so now since I did that, instead of just going down, now I look back at it and now I just improved a lot.
00:38 So it was actually a good thing because I learned a lot of things that I wouldn't actually pay attention to when I wasn't injured.
00:44 What kind of specifically was that?
00:46 Specifically just knowing the game more, figuring out who I am as a person too. So it just allowed me to develop that outside of football.
00:54 Did you lean on anyone just for guidance or growth at all?
00:57 My mom helped me a lot. She was going through the whole process where I couldn't even walk a lot of times during the injury.
01:03 I would cry some days and stuff like that and I really didn't know if I was going to come back because it's just a lifetime injury.
01:09 You come into a D1 school and that's not what you're expecting. And I leaned on my mom, mom, God, and they pushed me through and I got through it.
01:17 What was the injury? Was it a knee?
01:19 Yeah, tore my meniscus.
01:21 This was in high school?
01:22 Yeah, it was in high school. First game, opening kickoff.
01:24 Against Bellarmine.
01:27 99, that could be your number throughout college. Do you think you can stick with that one?
01:33 I'm going back and forth because 99 was a whole thing where I couldn't have 13.
01:39 Tied time was 13. 13 was my number and that was the only number I wanted.
01:43 A lot of players were like, "Okay, you can't get 13. That's going to make you a ball player since you can't get 13. You think your skills are going to drop."
01:50 I was like, "Alright, I'll just go 99." 99 was a cool number that stood out to me.
01:55 And then it showed that a number doesn't determine a player. A player determines a number.
02:00 Whatever you go into it, like Jordan said, you just shoot.