The NFL may be facing a new dilemma, and it’s neither the under-inflation of footballs, nor the ongoing concussion crisis. In the last 48 hours, two rookie players have suffered ACL tears when performing in their respective team’s rookie mini-camps.
First, the #3 overall pick in this year’s draft in the Jacksonville Jaguars Dante Fowler Jr. tore his ACL on Friday, only to have Denver Broncos tight end Jeff Heuerman, a third round pick of the team, suffer the same injury this afternoon. It seems like a rather alarming trend, when teams’ rookie mini-camp practices are all largely non-contact:
I dunno NFL teams, maybe its you.