Earl Thomas says big hit with surgically-repaired shoulder ‘felt like a home run’

RENTON – It wasn’t the first hit that Seahawks free safety Earl Thomas has delivered with his surgically-repaired shoulder, but it was definitely the hardest.

In the first quarter of Sunday’s game against Green Bay, Thomas shot out of the secondary and lowered his left shoulder into Eddie Lacy, who at 234 pounds is one of the NFL’s biggest running backs. The play is embedded below.

Thomas, who had offseason surgery to repair a torn labrum, was asked on Thursday if it felt good to get his first big hit out of the way.

“Yeah, it felt like a home run,” he said. “When you get the hit the sweet part of the bat, you don’t really feel anything. That’s what it felt like.”

Thomas has said before that he feels no effects of the shoulder injury he sustained last January and the surgery he had the next month to repair it. His hit on Lacy and his comments about it afterward would suggest as much.

This was the hit Earl Thomas put on Eddie Lacy with his surgically-repaired shoulder. Said it felt like a home run. pic.twitter.com/wnncZdrlOj

— Brady Henderson (@BradyHenderson) September 25, 2015

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