Eagles lose Travis Long to torn ACL for second straight year

Eagles linebacker Travis Long missed the entire season last year with a torn left ACL suffered in August. And now he’ll miss his second straight season after tearing the same ACL today.

The Eagles have confirmed that Long tore his left ACL in practice again today and will not play this season.

It’s obviously devastating news for a young man who now has to to be wondering if he’ll ever get to realize his dream of playing in the NFL. And it’s bad news for the Eagles, as well. Although Long wasn’t expected to be a big part of the defense, the Eagles don’t have a lot of depth at outside linebacker and thought Long could be a contributor there, and on special teams.

Long also tore his right ACL in 2012 at Washington State.


http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...straight-year/

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It may not seem terribly relevant that he tore his other ACL in college, but that pretty much guarantees he's toast.

The preferred way to fix a torn ACL is by taking a strip from one of the patellar tendons on the front of your knee; that's the only way to have it end up like it was naturally. They can do that twice - once for each patellar tendon, and then they're done.

After that, they either have to use regular muscle, or they can try to take a ligament from a corpse. Then you're just happy if you're able to use your leg normally.

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