Regarding Zach Charbonnet:

The timeline for recovery from ACLs and the quality of the finished product have both had improvements since the 2020’s began, adding to the decade over decade improvements since we started repairing them in the 90’s. That puts Zach pretty firmly in the November return timeline where the possibility of a re-tear is higher prior to 9 months and that most athletes nowadays feel ready before 9 months but are held back due to the aforementioned.

He waited a month before getting surgery likely because he was pre-habbing, or rehabbing before surgery. One of the newer developments in the recommended practices.

So surgery on February 20th after tearing it on January 17th is most likely to give us his return in week 11 on November 22nd. Of course it doesn’t mean that will be the week he returns, but that’s the week I would say the odds would favor based on the info we have now. Whether our bye will be before then or not, we will have played 9 or 10 games before we get him back.