Season-ending injury.
Those three words have to be the most feared words in all of professional sport. Doesn’t matter the athletic endeavor, an athlete being told their current season is over is something which is difficult for the average fan to comprehend.
Having a season-ending injury doesn’t just mean your season is over, it means you now start a lengthy journey of potential surgery, and lengthy rehabilitation. When you typically would be resting and preparing yourself for the next season, you are spending all your time just trying to get back to square one.
For the Pittsburgh Steelers, their players dodged several bullets this year in this regard, the latest being Pat Freiermuth’s knee injury in Week 18 which many thought was going to fall into the aforementioned category.