There’s a lesson for everybody here: always limber up before the end-of-training-camp orgy.
Also, I wonder how long the editor deliberated over the tense agreement in that headline. It’s correct, I think, but it sounds kind of funny if you say it aloud.

[chortles] And the obvious question: what was the sixth player doing??
[semi-seriously] Let’s hope the injuries don’t persist, like the AFL player described recently by a radio commentator as experiencing “an intermittent groin” that had hampered his playing this season.