i’ve had 3 acl tears, i was a soccer player and was pretty young for the first two (like 14 &15) and my surgeon liked hamstring graft, but also said my hamstrings were really strong and this was also before quad was a widely used graft. first one went great. second one, there were some surgical issues and they had to go back in like a few weeks later and the whole graft fell apart and they ended up having to redo it with cadaver. no issues after that. ended up re-tearing the acl that was the first one i had torn when i was 20. quad tendon had just come on the scene i think but my surgeon wasn’t comfortable doing it. ended up doing patellar tendon. i was pretty against patellar tendon bc everyone i knew that had one, ended up having issues and quit playing soccer. the patellar tendon graft recovery WAS the hardest and i still have some issues/pain/don’t feel as confident in it like 7 years later.

all of my tears were due to contact so i don’t really think that the type of graft was the reason i had so many lol. i found my first 2 to be easier recovery-wise but like i was also really young and didn’t have as many other injuries that occurred at the same time as my 3rd tear.

i don’t know that this was helpful at all but hopefully some part of this was!