Fred Jackson injury: Torn MCL will likely end season for Bills RB

After failing to miss a single game from the beginning of the 2008 season through Week 11 of 2011, Jackson has been hit by a variety of injuries over the past year or so. This is just the latest in a line of aches and pains that has limited the running back to just 20 games over the past two seasons.

Over 10 games this year, Jackson ran the ball 115 times for 437 yards and three touchdowns. He also caught 34 passes for 217 yards. It’s his worst total yardage figure for a single season since his rookie season, which consisted of just eight games.

Jackson was hurt on a gang tackle in the fourth quarter of the team’s 15-12 loss to St. Louis when two players collapsed on his leg. He needed to be helped off the field, and when asked about the injury after the game, Chan Gailey commented that it “did not look good.” It’s not official what he hurt, but with three weeks left in the year and the Bills toeing the edge of playoff elimination, it seems unlikely Jackson will return to the playing field this season.

Jackson previously missed a pair of games on the season with a sprained right knee.