Ohio State running back Ezekiel Elliott said Thursday he got the cast off his left wrist Monday, but he is still at least six weeks out from resuming full football activities.
"I got my cast off Monday and now it's just a six-week mobility process," the running back and finalist for the Sullivan Award said. "After six weeks I'll be full-go."
Elliott said following Ohio State's 42-20 victory over Oregon in the first ever College Football Playoff National Championship Game Jan. 12 in Dallas that he would need a second surgery on the wrist in the offseason, even though he rushed for 1,878 yards and 18 touchdowns while playing all 15 games.
"I was just out there basically playing with one hand. I was one-handed," Elliott said. "I couldn't carry the ball in my left hand, I couldn't punch with it. I couldn't do much with it. I was pretty handicapped."
It didn't really seem like it in the postseason, as Elliott ripped apart Wisconsin, Alabama and Oregon for an absurd 696 yards and eight touchdowns.
Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer said recently they're taking it slow with Elliott and a multitude of other veterans this spring, because there's really no reason to wear down their bodies since the season ended not even three months ago.
Elliott, though, is confident he'll be back at it in six weeks after he gets the strength back in his wrist.
"I can feel it getting better but right now it's real small, real weak and I got a little bit of pain here and there," Elliott said. "The bone is not fully healed. Like I said, I still got six weeks until I'm 100 percent."
