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Although many posters have penciled in Wynn as the starting LT from day one, an Achilles tear is a very serious injury. I found an article about football players that suffer from an Achilles tear, and it said that about 28% of all players never return from the injury, and the mean time to recovery is about 340 days, which for him would be the end of July (I think he was injured August 16th).
Most football players returned to NFL after Achilles tendon repair
So: if he is already participating in pass protection drills that seems like a really, really good sign that he is already so far along in his recovery, and really excellent news. Of course, he is probably younger than most players that suffer this type of injury, so perhaps that bodes well for a quicker than usual recovery.
I wish they would have put up the data they collected for this somewhere. On its own it really doesn't say much because you have no clue how far back they went.
I would be more interested how it looks since 2000 (or maybe later). I honestly don't think data from before that has much value given how medical science has progressed in terms of surgery and also post surgery rehab.