Why Did Rick Chop Off Hershels Leg? How Rick Saved Hershel From The Zombie Bite Why did Rick Chop off Hershels leg in The Walking Dead? In Season 3 of TWD, which in my opinion was likely the most depressing season of the show, Hershel gets bit by a walker at one point, and he basically faces a choice, succumb to a slow and painful death by fever, or sever off the limb as soon as humanly possible. Rick Grimes, knowing [...]