The early reports on an injury suffered Tuesday by Seattle first-round pick L.J. Collier — that it’s a high ankle sprain — elicited at least a little bit of an initial sigh of relief.
As Collier lay on the ground after the play ended, then limped on his own to the sidelines and then — after a few minutes of being tended to by trainers — was carted off the field, the worst-case scenarios of a broken bone or significant injury to a knee seemed possible.
But high ankle sprains, if maybe not as dire sounding as some injuries, are notoriously hard to predict.