The instant after he tackled Jacksonville punt returner Jamal Agnew last September, Broncos inside linebacker Josey Jewell felt discomfort, but figured he would miss a play or two and return to the game.
“I thought it was just a stinger,” the 27-year-old Jewell said in a phone interview with The Denver Post. “I just felt like my shoulder was a little off and there was something there.”
Something was there. Something season-ending for Jewell. Something season-altering for the Broncos.
The routine play tore Jewell’s pectoral tendon, the chest muscle that allows the arms to move inward.