Achilles

At first, Mohamed Ibrahim believed his injury in last year's opener was just a cramp in his calf muscle, a seemingly minor setback the Minnesota star could ...

"At first I just wanted to walk again. Potts was hurt badly enough to require a six-day hospital stay in Indiana after the game at Purdue, putting his football future in obvious jeopardy. I was on the scooter, and I just wanted to walk again," Ibrahim said. The way Ibrahim approached the months that followed made quite an impact on his team, perhaps as much as the 262 yards and Ibrahim dived into Achilles tendon research and was heartened to learn that late NBA great Kobe Bryant once suffered that injury, his favorite basketball player serving as posthumous inspiration. His career with the Gophers was widely assumed to be over, too.