I'll admit that I've started believing that ACL injuries have become less of a concern in recent years, with players seemingly coming back to near pre-injury performance maybe the year after returning to play. Is that necessarily the case? Maybe not so much.   From the March 7th Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine:   Return to Play and Performance After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction in National Football League Players (full article may be behind a paywall,