ALAMEDA, Calif. -- Derek Carr suffered a fractured pinkie finger on his passing hand on Nov. 27, 2016.
A fractured right fibula ended his season four weeks later.
This season, the Oakland Raiders quarterback fractured three bones in his back during Week 4.
Through it all, Carr insisted he was fine, thank you very much, even if he did not pass the eye or smell test.
“Three broken bones in your back,” Raiders coach Jon Gruden said Tuesday in his introductory news conference, “I think that is a reasonable reason why you might not have the same season you had a year ago.