Within about two weeks of breaking his leg in the state championship game last year, Naperville North running back Nick Mlady was jogging on a treadmill.
To be fair, it was weight-altered jogging on a treadmill contraption (or something like that), but the point remains the same. Mlady's injury could have been much worse, like to his knee for example (as some people presumed), but it wasn't.
Now Mlady's back in more than enough time to do some damage during his senior year.
"It probably looked worse than it really was," Mlady said.
Mlady, who rushed for nearly 1,300 yards last year, never had to endure doubts of losing his chance at a college scholarship or a state-championship encore season. Instead, he went to physical therapy every day to remove the swelling and got right back on the horse.
"It wasn't too bad," Mlady said. "It was a clean break (of the fibula) all the way through. It stayed aligned so I didn't have to have surgery."
And now, because of rehab, he feels stronger than ever.
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