Todd Gurley Slimming Down to Make Postseason

The longer the offseason goes on, the worse the situation looks for Los Angeles Rams running back Todd Gurley.

Todd Gurley has been under intense scrutiny since the end of the 2018 NFL regular season. His nagging knee injury meant he was in and out throughout the end of the regular season and the postseason.

When he did appear in the playoffs, the Rams limited his reps and he clearly wasn’t himself. Since then, the Rams have been downplaying his injury status. All the stories about Todd Gurley have been about how he’s been training hard.

Although, Travelle Gaines, his personal trainer, has shed a little more light on the situation. He still downplays the severity of the knee issue, stemming from an ACL injury in 2015. However, he confirmed that Gurley has arthritic issues as a result of the operation.

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“Everybody knew when Todd came out of Georgia that there would be some kind of arthritic component to his knee, which is part of every surgery whether it’s a shoulder, a knee, an ankle,” Gaines said.

“He’s now at the year-five mark, all we’re doing is managing that. If we can pound him less in the offseason while keeping his weight down, working on his strength, working on his agility in short areas, that’s going to give him a better chance to be healthy Weeks 14 through 17 when they really count.”

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“It was a collective decision for him to play a little lighter this year, not because of injuries, just because I just feel he’s one of the faster players in the league,” Gaines said.

“He doesn’t have to play at 224 — 218 is only six pounds less, so I wanted to decrease his body fat a little bit and get him to the point where he’s a tad smaller so he can be a tad faster and a little bit bigger from a lean muscle mass standpoint. He’s going from basically 10 percent body fat to 7 percent body fat.”