LARAMIE -- Alonzo Velazquez still isn’t exactly sure how it happened.
All Wyoming’s offensive lineman knows is that his right knee was painful following the Cowboys’ 27-3 loss at Fresno State last October. He figured it might’ve been a torn meniscus, but when he had the knee checked out, it wasn’t that.
It was worse.
“It was a lucky find that (the trainers) found it,” Velazquez said.
Velazquez said he had a lesion stemming from osteochondritis dissecans, more commonly known as OCD. According to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, it’s a joint condition that occurs when a lack of blood supply causes a small segment of bone to separate, causing the bone and the surrounding cartilage to crack and loosen.