As he watched his teammates author one of the most memorable seasons in Indiana football history last fall, Marcelino Ball thought about testing the limits of modern medicine.
For a few weeks at the start of the 2020 campaign, Ball was determined to not let an ACL tear suffered during fall camp keep him on the sidelines. His teammates were having fun and winning games, and Ball wanted to contribute. So he asked Google: “When is the quickest you can come back from an ACL injury?” The answers he found weren’t quite to his liking, so he considered workarounds — anything that could get him on the field, even in a limited capacity.