I wasn't asking for medical documents. HIPAA hasn't prevented medical information on players going public before.
The way the process usually works is these injuries surface at the NFL combine or shortly after. No concerning injury reports surfaced on Ajayi after the NFL Combine until a couple weeks before the NFL Draft. Rumors surfaced claiming Ajayi may have been re-evaluated at medical re-checks, but his agent denied it, and apparently Ajayi didn’t even attend. There are numerous articles where Ajayi has said he never attended medical rechecks, just as his agent had claimed, and according to Ajayi every doctor he spoke to told him his knee checked out fine. There are articles about Ajayi checking out fine with the Dolphins medical team, direct quotes from team sources, right after they drafted him.
It was unusual and odd to many covering the draft the way the medical concerns were revealed. That's a sentiment written in many articles. Draftnik Mike Mayock is the one who said "Bone-on-bone" and claimed he heard that from one team, and Adam Schefter tweeted that out. Combined with the draft slide, people took this as confirmation that something is medically wrong with him. It's fair to interpret it this way, and I too think there could be reason for concern long-term as I have always said.
Now maybe it's all an act for Ajayi. Maybe Ajayi is lying about his medicals for various reasons, perhaps thinking future contract. Maybe he's lying to himself to help himself clear mental hurdles. But he isn't going to admit it. And no one is going to reveal hard evidence. Boise isn't. Team doctors aren't. So HIPAA does play in there. You are right about that.
But trust me when I said I've done research into this, and usually when a player has medical issues during the pre-draft process there are various confirmed reports. That's all I meant when asking to be pointed to resources.
At least I've read into this matter quite extensively, which by the way you said knees plural and called it bone-on-bone doesn't seem you have. I'm trained on HIPAA for different jobs so I don't need the HIPAA lesson. Medical lessons maybe. Just an oversees military medic who's worked with doctors and was a civilian EMT, so no orthopedic expert, but I would assume that if it's bone-on-bone (as you said like it's a fact) he wouldn't be playing. His knee would be so worn down he wouldn't be walking right anymore.
So we can both believe whatever we want. I've said numerous times it's a long-term concern, but every serious knee injury is a long-term concern. The only difference for added concern with him is the draft slide. But we do know guys get taken off of boards over the littlest concerns all the time. Sometimes they get taken off last minute. Sometimes during the draft they get added back onto draftboards. I don't claim to know why these things are so fluid, I just call it as I see it.
We can all chose to believe what we want. I'll believe in the guy if he says his knee was never a concern and his team backs that up. He believes he's playing for a long time, as he has said. I don't believe in that. But at least for the short term, as he continues to work his butt of all every offseason, I chose to give him the benefit of the doubt. Simply because he seems chill as a dude, and I think he deserves it. For now I look forward to believing in what I see on the field this season and worry about the future then.