A year ago, talking about Chris Schuler joining a USL side was sort of like heresy.
Schuler had just come off the back of a good season in which he missed matches only for a completely incidental injury, and he'd started 2015 in good fitness. It seemed, if only for a moment, that he was back to playing regularly.
After a few weeks of the season, that was no longer the case. He succumbed to injury once again, and he underwent a meniscus repair surgery that should have kept him out for four to six weeks. Just over two months after that surgery, he returned — only to disappear with what was, in some estimations, a minor, non-controversial injury.