Injuries in exhibition games are always brutal. But year-ending injuries in the opening exhibition game of the season are downright devastating.
That’s the fate that Steelers kicker Shaun Suisham suffered on Sunday against the Minnesota Vikings in the NFL’s annual Hall of Fame game.
According to Ed Bouchette of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the veteran sustained a torn ACL in the meaningless contest, ending his 2015 campaign before it had even begun:
Shaun Suisham will have surgery on his left knee this week and the Steelers will go shopping for another kicker.
Suisham has a torn anterior cruciate ligament and cartilage damage, and the team will almost surely place him on injured reserve, ending his season.