Who's career would have been vastly different had they not suffered fluke-y, non-contact injuries?

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The original was posted on /r/nfl by /u/today_okay on 2025-04-18 02:39:39+00:00.

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I think about Marino and how he went down with an achilles just for stepping backwards incorrectly and then it snapped. Ugh. Or how Vinny Testaverde went down with a similar achilles rupture. It’s always the achilles.

EDIT: Yes I should have said ‘Whose’ but I fucked up