When a player injures his knee, it’s often reported the team fears a torn ACL. (Which is kind of a relief, since it rules out rabies.)
When a player injures his lower leg, it’s often reported the team fears an Achilles injury. That’s precisely what Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports regarding the apparent lower-leg injury suffered Saturday by Lions tight end Eric Ebron.
Ebron will surely be subjected to the standard diagnostic testing before anything is finalized, but when it comes to the Achilles tendon, it’s pretty easy to tell whether or not it’s, you know, there. If Ebron’s isn’t, he’ll miss all of 2016.
If that happens, it virtually guarantees that the Lions won’t pick up Ebron’s fifth-year option in May, setting the stage for a 2017 contract year for the 2014 first-round pick in Detroit.