HOWE: Injuries Up For This Season Thanks To Lockout

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HOWE: Injuries Up For This Season Thanks To Lockout
By: Ian Logue

Jeff Howe of NESN tracked the Patriots practice participation last season and this season, and came accross some interesting notes about how the lockout affected player injuries for this season....

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[captain stone]

I think that pretty much everybody saw this coming. And the number of Achilles' tendon ruptures throughout the league is startling.

 

[Gwedd]

I think that pretty much everybody saw this coming. And the number of Achilles' tendon ruptures throughout the league is startling.

Indeed. Normally, I'd say that making any sort of correlation between PS injuries and the length of training camp is tenuous at best, but there HAVE been a lot of torn achillies, and a number of other seemingly more serious injuries.