re: George Pickens has a torn ACL, per DawgSports

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You hear about players coming back these days closer to 6 months than 9.

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This has been the recent trend. The kind of surgery they are doing now must be leaps and bounds above the surgery I got at Athens Orthopedic just five years ago when I tore my ACL, because I couldn't even return to my daily runs for four or five months after surgery.

Of course, you would expect orthopedic surgery for top athletes to be better than the likely relatively traditional surgery I got. Also, they're top athletes with much stronger legs than normal people, which surely helps with rehab.