Instead of gearing up for his first full season of CFL football, Matt Jaworski was in a hospital bed wondering if he’d ever get to play again.
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Instead of gearing up for his first full season of CFL football, Matt Jaworski was in a hospital bed wondering if he’d ever get to play again.
Instead of gearing up for his first full season of CFL football, Matt Jaworski was in a hospital bed wondering if he’d ever get to play again.
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers defensive end was in a serious car crash in March and has several scars on his face — which he pointed out to reporters on Sunday — to prove it.
The 23-year-old from Buffalo, N.Y., was placed on the retirement list in May. Over the weekend, the Bombers signed him to the practice roster.
Bombers defensive end Matt Jaworski says the thought of getting back to football served as motivation while he recovered from injuries suffered in a serious car crash in March.
“I appreciate Winnipeg taking me back and I’m ready to go,” he said after practice.
“Football helped me get back to normal. It was motivation… ‘All right, let’s get back. I’ve got a season to get back to.’ It was always in the back of my head — if my body let me, I was going to come back to play football and I did.
“Got a couple scars, but didn’t break any bones, and feel pretty good. Excited to be back and ready to play football.”
The Fordham University product didn’t go into the specifics of the accident, but he was in the hospital for several weeks and lost a significant amount of weight.
The Bombers initially signed Jaworski to the practice roster last October.
“A huge thanks to my parents, for a while they took care of me — for about a month or two. It took me about two months to get back to normal and getting in the gym again and just starting to get my diet right,” he said.
“Every day needed work to get back to normal and get back to where I am now.”
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