No football team can afford to lose a starter to a season-ending injury. It hurts even more when that player is your defensive captain and second-leading tackler.
Navy head coach Ken Niumatalolo announced on Tuesday that senior inside linebacker Daniel Gonzales suffered a career-ending injury during last Saturday's loss to Air Force. Gonzales went down in the first half with a foot injury and did not return.
A magnetic resonance imagery examination conducted on Monday revealed the hard-hitting linebacker sustained a Lisfranc injury, which is either a fracture or dislocation of the metatarsal bones in the mid-foot area.