The surgeon who operated on New York Jets quarterback Teddy Bridgewater's knee drew a scary parallel when describing the damage done to the fourth-year passer in 2016.
"It was just a horribly grotesque injury," Dan Cooper said in an interview with ESPN.com's Ian O'Connor. "... It's mangled. You make the skin incision, and there's nothing there. It's almost like a war wound. Everything is blown."
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