I said on a radio spot today (I think it was today, maybe it was yesterday) that we can make all the predictions we want about the coming football season but that the only certainty is that there will be injuries and that some of them could go a long way toward determining the outcome of the chase for the Lombardi Trophy.
Last year, for example, the Patriots were thrown rudely off course in Week One, after quarterback Tom Brady was lost for the year with a torn ACL.
The Steelers nearly suffered that same fate today, on their final day of training camp practices in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
Jim Wexell of Scout.com, via his Twitter account, reports that quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has an injury to his Achilles’ tendon that, for now, appears to not be a tear.
The only prescription for a torn Achilles’ tendon is more cowbell season-ending surgery.
Per Wexell, Roethlisberger is now able to walk (he’s still limping). Roethlisberger told someone, “I’ll be all right.”
Given Ben’s reputation for being a drama queen, that’s a powerful statement. And it indicates that, for now, the Steelers have dodged a bullet.
