Lost amid the news of Dante Fowler Jr.’s ACL injury this weekend was the fact that he seemed to be everything the Jacksonville Jaguars could have hoped for before going down with injury.
This may seem like piling on during a trying time for a young NFL team, but Fowler’s ability was apparent during the Jaguars rookie minicamp, flashing his lofty potential during the drills. That kind of ability won’t see the football field until after the 2015 season, which hurts the Jaguars. While they won’t know what kind of production they could have had from Fowler during the season, getting a taste in practice and then having it ripped away is a bit harsh in a cosmic sense.