Jefferson battled a pair of injuries last season, and we now know the difficult nature of his recovery.
Kevin Seifert is a staff writer who covers the Minnesota Vikings and the NFL at ESPN. Kevin has covered the NFL for over 20 years, joining ESPN in 2008. He was previously a beat reporter for the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Washington Times. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia. You can follow him via Twitter @SeifertESPN.' practice facility. It's a sunny fall morning, not long after he suffered a right hamstring injury that put him on injured reserve.
"No one, no one, no one in this game," he said, repeating for emphasis,"can ever tell me to not play or to tank the season or to do any of that other stuff because I'm not that type of person. I want to play. I love the game of football. I want to be the best. In order for that to happen, I've got to be out there on that field. ... There's no prolonging the injury, there's no, 'Oh he's sitting out because of the contract. It's not any of that. At all.
Required by the NFL to announce the part of the body affected in their in-game injury report, the Vikings said Jefferson had a chest injury. As he continued to spit out blood in the blue medical tent, a Vikings doctor landed on a more specific diagnosis. Jefferson had suffered a"pulmonary contusion," in essence a bruised lung.
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