Erik Ainge, the New York Jets quarterback who missed the entire 2010 season after entering drug rehab, is apparently going to miss all of 2011 as well.
Ainge wrote on his verified Twitter account that he suffered a serious injury to his throwing shoulder.
“Found out i have a torn rotator cuff in my right shoulder today, no fun, o well, could always be worse, im sober and loved, all that matters,” Ainge tweeted.
A torn rotator cuff in the throwing shoulder almost certainly means that Ainge is out for the entire 2011 season. A 2008 fifth-round pick out of Tennessee, Ainge has still never played in a regular-season game.
Ainge revealed this spring that he had been using heroin and cocaine and that he was “under the influence pretty much every day, every practice.” If he’s sober now, he’s overcome something far more serious than a torn rotator cuff.