With a high number of players tearing their ACL or sufering another season-ending injury during the 2015 pre-season, there have been many calls to either get rid of pre-season or for coaches to sit their star players throughout the remainder of the pre-season games.
In just one week, we saw three players within days tear their ACL - Kelvin Benjamin, Louis Delmas and Jordy Nelson. Add that with other players who have lost their season in what some call a meaningless pre-season game and you can start understanding concerns others may have.
This debate raged even further when Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs took a legal, but controversial, shot at Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Sam Bradford's knees.