Terrell Suggs tears his achilles tendon

[Truth Detector]

Not good for the Ravens.

He vows to return by mid-season but the achilles is brutal.

[JSR]

How did he do it?

[Jim Wilke]

Suggs was reportedly doing his routine workout and not playing basketball as the original stories said.

I know quite a bit about this -- in my 20s, I tore and completely ruptured both achilles 8 years apart. Left was basketball, right was racketball. I realize that times have changed and therapies have greatly improved but in my personal experience, this is a devastating injury. It is 12 months until you are 75%, 24 months gets you to maybe 90% and that's it. Never - never - be the same.

[don7031]

NFL contracts have clauses requiring players to abstain from activities where there is a heightened risk of injury. The location where the injury occurred may very well have shifted after his agent reviewed his contract.