Typically, when a player returns from an ACL tear, it takes them a full year or longer to get back to full strength and full speed. Green Bay Packers wide receiver Christian Watson tore his ACL this calendar year, and incredibly has looked like his old self since returning in Week 8.
That Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst signed Watson to a one-year extension for $13.25 million exhibits an enormous amount of faith and shrewdness. Additionally, in doing so, the GM kept one of the team’s most dangerous offensive weapons in town for an extra season. This not only has given Watson a chance to prove himself full-go, and without immediate contract concerns, but it also functions as a sort of good-faith gesture.