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Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Deion Branch suffered a torn ACL in Saturday's playoff loss to the Packers and might not be ready to go in time for the start of the 2008 regular season.

The Seahawks say they think it will take Branch nine months to rehabilitate, which means he would miss not just all of the off-season and preseason, but the first month of the regular season as well. Players rehabbing from ACL surgery are rarely back to full speed immediately when they do return to the field.

For the Seahawks, the decision to trade a first-round draft pick to the Patriots to acquire Branch and sign him to a six-year, $39 million contract has turned out to be a major mistake. Branch was coming off his best season, a 998-yard year in New England, when the Seahawks traded for him. But in two years in Seattle he has averaged 51 catches and less than 700 yards a season. And the next time he plays, he'll be a 29-year-old with a bad knee.

Seahawks' Deion Branch Suffers Torn ACL - FanHouse - AOL Sports Blog

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