CHARLOTTE – One moment you’re arguably the best player in training camp, making eye-popping catches left and right.
The next, you’re carted off the field, listening to doctors explain the surgery you’ll soon undergo that will repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee.
Football isn’t always fair. Life isn’t always fair.
Kelvin Benjamin had never missed significant time due to injury. The massive wide receiver had never needed assistance to leave a football field.
That all changed during the next-to-last training camp practice, when Benjamin collapsed in a heap during a non-contact one-on-one drill.