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  • Yeah basically. Watch the video of Rodgers Achilles snapping, if you can stomach it. Now imagine that same play on a natural field.

    There would be A LOT more give into the ground, and more often the grass sliding and giving way, which could take a lot of force away from that tendon.

    Instead, his foot could not move or find a better position so that his own body could distribute the force, and the ground never gave any leeway, so all the force of him running, trying to break a tackle and a 300+lb elite athlete tackling him was transferred into his static Achilles tendon.

    This could have been a sprained ankle, or maybe nothing on a grass field.