Daronte Jones walked through the trainer's room last October to get a bag of ice. What he saw in there stopped him cold.
About 10 days after safety Lewis Cine's bone-breaking, season-ending leg injury, Jones saw him walking — without assistance from anyone or anything.
This couldn't be the plan, Jones thought, so soon after the first-round rookie suffered compound fractures of the tibia and fibula. Wrapping concealed an inch-long gash on the inside of Cine's left leg where bones protruded just a few days earlier, as well as a bigger incision above his knee where surgeons inserted a rod that's with him for life.