If the league insists on stacking 82 48-minute …

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For context: From 2010 to 2024, the instances of a player having three calf reports in a single season were vanishingly rare; it happened a total of five times across 14 seasons. Again—it happened six times this year. That’s a massive red flag. Yes, reporting standards have changed in that window—that’s the responsible and necessary disclaimer—but calf injuries now make up nearly one in four lower-leg injuries in the league, up from fewer than one in 10 a decade ago. The data is clear. If the league insists on stacking 82 48-minute regular-season games on top of a grueling two-month playoff gauntlet on top of a movement vocabulary that asks 240-pound men to absorb five times their body weight on one leg, dozens of times a night, then we can expect present trends to increase.

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