NEW YORK (AP) -- Sprains and strains. ACLs, MCLs and patellar tendons.
In one painful instant, they can derail your favorite football team's championship hopes - or sink your dreams for a title-winning fantasy football squad.
NFL teams are required to provide injury reports during the regular season after each of the three final full practices leading up to games. They can be downright lengthy, reading like a laundry list of maladies from jammed fingers to sprained ankles to concussions.
Concussions, or traumatic head and/or brain injuries, in particular have received a lot of attention in recent years as teams and players constantly try to reduce the risk for potentially career-ending injuries, while looking to improve treatments.