Bit of a digression here, but has there ever been a non-lingering Achilles injury? Has anyone ever come back quicker than "projected"?
Seems like they are all "slower than projected" to recover. Which means, you know, that medical staffs making injury assessments may want to re-think their definition of "projected."
I'm only semi-serious here, but it's weird. If a meteorologist always projected temperatures 5 degrees below the actual temperature and kept going on every day about how it was "hotter than projected," he'd lose his job. Projections should be right on average, sometimes too optimistic and sometimes too pessimistic.
Maybe there are plenty of guys who are projected to be out for three weeks with an Achilles, who bounce out of bed five days later feeling awesome. But I've never heard of one.