When he was in college, J.K. Dobbins regularly played on turf fields, and did so without incident. He never missed a game over his three seasons at Ohio State.
But now that Dobbins is in the NFL, and now that he’s recovered from a significant knee injury, the Ravens running back is a little more wary of fields like MetLife Stadium’s. The Ravens lost cornerback Kyle Fuller (knee) and left tackle Ja’Wuan James (Achilles tendon) to season-ending injuries in their Week 1 win over the host New York Jets. On Sunday, they’ll return to East Rutherford, New Jersey, to face the New York Giants — and their synthetic turf.
“No one likes the turf,” Dobbins, who’s never played at MetLife Stadium, said Thursday. “As the older guys would say, like, ‘Man, it hurts my body.’ Maybe that’s true. Maybe I’ll start feeling that as I continue on in my career. But it is terrible.”
