After the Arizona Cardinal selected Alabama safety Deionte Thompson with their fifth-round pick, a report came out about a degenerative knee condition, which was likely the reason for his fall in the draft. However, it was not something he knew about.
“I heard the information just like everybody else did today,” he said when he was asked about it on a conference call Saturday afternoon.
He indicated he did have knee surgery in 2017 for a torn meniscus but has felt fine since then.
He also had wrist surgery before the combine to repair torn ligaments. He did not participate in athletic testing at the combine.
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