Vikings quarterback Teddy Bridgewater suffered an unusual and fairly horrifying injury in a non-contact drill this week — a dislocated left knee. The team announced he suffered a complete ACL tear, too, but no nerve or artery damage, which is the key to its expectation he’ll make a full recovery.
Try to come up with a pro football player who has never had an injury, and you’ll be thinking about it for a while. Knee injuries in general, and ACL tears in particular, are regular occurrences. Knee dislocations are, thankfully, fairly uncommon, because there are plenty of ligaments to hold the knee in place and it takes a lot of force to knock your upper leg off the lower one.