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ESPN Star Field Yates Sent To Hospital After Suffering Weird Fantasy Football Injury

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Fantasy Football season is upon us as the NFL regular season is just weeks away, and that means we’re in for the next round of bizarre fantasy football-related stories.

Unfortunately for ESPN’s Field Yates, those stories include a trip to the hospital.

Yates attended ESPN’s Ultimate Draft Weekend in the Bahamas, and in the process in the process trying to determine his fantasy draft order, dislocated his shoulder.

“Breaking –@fieldyates shoulder,” Adam Schefter tweeted. “While engaging in an activity to determine the draft order in his fantasy football league at @espnfantasy Ultimate Draft Weekend in the Bahamas, Yates dislocated his shoulder, per sources. The injury resulted in a brief hospitalization, but Yates now has been discharged, and is aiming to be ready for opening day.”
Schefter then posted a video of the incident. It appears Yates was taking part in a football obstacle course on the beach. During the final portion of the course, he dove through a tackling dummy and landed on his shoulder.
One person off-camera can be heard saying “that hurt.”
Yates immediately replied, “yeah, it did.”
Another person then asks Yates if it was “bad injury.”
To which he says “yeah.”
Yates, to his credit, took the whole thing in stride. He tweeted the following on Saturday morning.
“No one will remember:

– your salary
– how busy you were
– how many hours you worked

But they will remember:

– that time when you secured the first pick in your fantasy draft and CRUSHED that blow up QB 😤.”

Pain is temporary. Greatness is forever.

But in a snake draft, is it really worth dislocating your shoulder for the number one overall pick? I guess only time will tell. But if Yates doesn’t win his league, he may look back on this day with a whole lot of regret.

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Clay Sauertieg is an editor with an expertise in College Football and Motorsports. He graduated from Penn State University and the Curley Center for Sports Journalism with a degree in Print Journalism.
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