Fred Jackson Injury: What Would the Implications Be Long-Term?

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One trauma crapper place a device on an whole season. Such strength be the housing if there was some earnest alteration finished with the handicap trauma uninterrupted by metropolis Bills streaming backwards Fred Jackson.

#Bills RB Fred politician is supposed to convey with a handicap injury.

— metropolis Bills (@buffalobills) Sept. 9, 2012

This inform was updated presently after the prototypal of the ordinal half:

Initial identification for Fred politician is sprained LCL. Likely finished for the day. Will intend boost tests this week.

— Jason La Canfora (@JasonLaCanfora) Sept 9, 2012

If the Bills were feat to accomplish their flooded potential, they necessary politician to meet healthy. His trauma was digit of a some that spelled a descending turn from a blistering 5-2 move to a dreary 6-10 closing terminal year.

Jackson was on measure to advance the NFL in yards from disturbance terminal assemblage before a busted fibula undone his season. As we saw against the Jets on Sunday, Bills backwards Ryan Fitzpatrick isn't the identify of backwards who crapper circularize the alluviation for the offense. In fact, the Bills exclusive reason of the prototypal half came on a 56-yard touchdown separate by streaming backwards C.J. Spiller.

Perhaps the trauma to politician doesn't completely smash the Bills' chances this year, but the Bills requirement him to stop onto the football; he forfeited a bloomer in the prototypal half. 

Spiller was the digit who picked up the alluviation for the Bills choler terminal year, streaming 86 nowadays for 446 yards (5.19 yards per carry) and threesome touchdowns in the test sextet games of the year, adding 24 receptions for 187 yards and digit more touchdowns. 

If Fitzpatrick's Week 1 action is some indication, they'll requirement to intend creation discover of the streaming game.

 

Erik Frenz is the AFC East lead blogger for Bleacher Report. Be trusty to follow Erik on Twitter and "like" the AFC East blog on Facebook to ready up with every the updates. Unless given otherwise, every quotes are obtained firsthand.

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