It’s always devastating for a team to get the news one of its players has suffered a season-ending injury. It’s even more difficult when it happens to a star player and when it becomes a possibility of affecting the recruiting process.

Injuries are the most unfortunate part of sports. Sometimes they can’t be helped. Most ACL tears are simply freak accidents that could happen to anybody. Others are concussions, which also occur during routine plays, or even ones that take place during practice.

Lizi Arbogast is the sports editor at Tallapoosa Publishers, Inc.Â