No two players are alike, but Dontari Poe's return from back surgery last year could prove instructive for Texans fans trying to decipher how long J.J. Watt could be out in 2016.
By now, you've probably gone through most, if not all, of the stages of grief in response to last night's news that J.J. Watt just underwent back surgery. Will Carroll reports that the specific surgical procedure Watt had was a microdiscectomy.
You know what other defensive lineman had that same surgery almost exactly a year ago? The Kansas City Chiefs' Dontari Poe.