Kijana Carter

[Ravage]

I think one of the biggest problems with putting Ki-Jana in perspective is that when his ACL exploded, it was considered to still be a career-altering injury. Players could come back, but rarely if ever were they the same as they were. Even now it takes a while for some to get it back, see: Atkins, Geno. But in 1995? Only the most optimistic among us thought he'd come back the same. I was 14 and I knew what I saw at Penn St. wasn't ever going to show up in stripes after that day.