There was some initial hope that Kendrick Bourne might not have suffered a major injury when he went down against the Miami Dolphins on Sunday. However, tests conducted the following morning revealed that that is not the case: the New England Patriots’ veteran wide receiver suffered a torn ACL.
The injury means that Bourne’s season is now over, and that he will enter a lengthy recovery process. It also means that the Patriots suffered another loss: after already losing both cornerbacks Christian Gonzalez and Marcus Jones to torn labrums, Bourne becomes the next core player to see his season come to a premature end.