TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Jake Pfeil still winces as he tells the story. It was Oct. 10, 2015, and No. 12 Florida State was playing Miami at home. Near the end of the second quarter, star running back Dalvin Cook took a handoff from quarterback Everett Golson and slipped through the middle of the Hurricanes' defense. He was going to break a long run, and the crowd clamored. Pfeil, the Seminoles associate director of sports medicine, cringed.
The previous Saturday Cook had exited in the first quarter of Florida State's 24–16 win over Wake Forest with a left hamstring injury.