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‘It was a lot of pain’: How Hurricanes lineman Navaughn Donaldson made yearlong rehab from knee injury

It was just more than a year to the day that senior offensive lineman Navaughn Donaldson suffered the devastating knee injury — and on the same field.

Donaldson had to be wondering last weekend if his first game action back from the yearlong rehab of tears in the ACL and MCL in his right knee would be at Duke’s Wallace Wade Stadium, where it first happened. That could only happen through a perfect storm of multiple schedule alterations due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the very limited group of offensive linemen available. They made it entirely through the first game Donaldson was available in case of emergency, the Nov.