Will Dissly is back! Patellar tendon injuries are notoriously brutal and when Dissly, who’d started his first NFL season like a Rookie of the Year candidate, tore his right PT versus the Arizona Cardinals in week 4 of 2018, the outlook appeared bleak.
A study from MT Nguyen, published in the Phys Sportsmed journal on July 16th, found that football players are the worst affected by the injury amongst all sports. Footballers had the lowest Return To Play Rate, shortest adjusted career length and the “most significant decrease in performance in the first postoperative season.