The list of players who finished the 2025 season injured was almost a who’s-who of some of the NFL’s biggest stars. Two-time MVP and three-time Super Bowl champion Patrick Mahomes, who could only watch the end of a disappointing six-win season for Kansas City after going down with a torn ACL in Week 15, is one of them.
NFL Stars Returning from Injuries
Three-time All-Pro Micah Parsons was only a spectator in the postseason in his first season in Green Bay after suffering his own torn ACL in December, while the San Francisco 49ers were down three big stars of their own for the end of the playoffs with Fred Warner, Nick Bosa, and George Kittle all going down with major injuries during the season.
Indianapolis had its promising season derailed when quarterback Daniel Jones tore his Achilles in early December and the New York Giants missed 2024 rookie sensation Malik Nabers for most of the season after he went down with a knee injury in the fourth game of his second season.
Training camp for those stars has been about getting back up to full strength so they can get back on the field either for the start of the season or at least early on. "It was always the goal to be able to practice when I got to training camp. We kind of hit that step," Mahomes said at the start of camp. "Now, it’s about building and keep getting better and better, so when the regular season comes around, I can be available."
Most of those other stars are aiming to be back for Week 1, but Parsons will have to wait a little longer. He is hoping to return in October and vows the pent-up energy from his time away will only make him better.
"People are worried about the knee. They should be worried about how I’m going to play when I get back," Parsons said. "The anger, the frustration, the things that I’m going to have to let out because of how long it’s been since I played."
Stars Returning from Injuries
Kansas City QB Patrick Mahomes, Green Bay edge rusher Micah Parsons, San Francisco stars Fred Warner, Nick Bosa, and George Kittle, New York Giants WR Malik Nabers, Indianapolis QB Daniel Jones, and Baltimore DT Nnamdi Madubuike are some of the biggest stars returning from injuries this season.
Original reporting: Texarkana Gazette — read the source article.
