The Duncan Banner

Sports

July 30, 2012

Injury ends Dismuke’s football career at Oklahoma

Greg Crews The Duncan Banner

DUNCAN — After undergoing a knee surgery Duncan High School grad and Oklahoma offensive lineman Dylan Dismuke has been told by doctors that his football playing days are likely over.

“I hurt it last year in bowl practice. I dislocated the knee cap,” Dismuke said. “It just kept getting worse, the swelling was getting worse and worse. Working out in the spring I could hardly move it.

“I had surgery on it after the spring game and they told me it would be better if I don’t play anymore.”

The redshirt freshman had been playing with the second team offensive line during the preseason, but it now seems his promising career has been cut short.

“I think it’s all still setting in,” Dismuke said. “It bothers me a lot, but I think when football season gets here it will be hard.”

Dismuke will be able to continue attending Oklahoma on a Medical scholarship, which entitles him to all the privileges he has as a football player, like a housing stipend and access to the study hall program.

“The biggest thing for me was to make sure that my school was still paid for,” Dismuke said. “When I knew it was, it made it a little easier.”

Dismuke originally dislocated the knee making a routine move during practice.

“I’m not really sure how I did it. Nobody really is. I guess I just stepped wrong and the kneecap popped out of place and then it popped back in, and that’s when everything happened,” he said.

The quick dislocation caused major cartilage damage, which doctors cleared out in surgery this spring.

After removing the tissue, it was apparent that Dismuke’s knee would be rubbing bone on bone when he had it bent. That led doctors to recommend that Dismuke end his football career.

Dismuke was highly sought after coming out of Duncan. He was on the All-State team and was listed as the No. 2 player in Oklahoma by rivals.com and the No. 4 player by scout.com. After redshirting last season, Dismuke was in line to get playing time this year.

While the 6-foot-7, 299-pound lineman isn’t completely ruling out the idea of returning to football, he believes his football days are over.

“For now, I’d say yeah (it’s over),” he said.

Text Only
Sports
Featured Ads
Hyperlocal Search
Premier Guide
Find a business

Walking Fingers
Maps, Menus, Store hours, Coupons, and more...
Premier Guide
Stocks
AP Video
Man Who Disrupted Flight Ranted About CIA Feds: 7-Eleven Stores Exploited Immigrants Fla. Teen Catches Ride With Whale Shark G8 Leaders Huddle on Syria Raw: Obama, Putin Meet at G8 Iran's Rowhani Urges 'Path of Moderation' Daughter: Mandela Doing 'Very Well' Investigators Probe Origin of Colo. Wildfire Ex-NFL Star Chad Johnson Out of Jail 'Game of Thrones' Boosts N. Ireland Raw: Prince Philip Leaves Hospital After Surgery Zimmerman Jury Selection Turns to Media Exposure Raw: FBI Meets Plane After Poison Threat Family Tweets Say Kim Kardashian Gives Birth US, EU Leaders Announce Free Trade Talks
Poll

It's summer time and gas prices seem to fluctuate often these days. What are your plans, do you:

Plan to stay close to home this summer, saving your money to pay utility bills?
Find an Oklahoma destination and get away for a day or two?
Drive across country no matter the cost of fuel
Fly to another country or state?
     View Results