Injuries are part of the NFL. As former Cardinals defensive lineman Cory Redding once said, "The NFL is not if you're going to get hurt — you're going to get hurt." But at this point, someone needs to call mercy. Today, not only is Andrew Luck's shoulder injury finally deemed so bad he won't play at all in 2017 (once, the Colts were hoping he'd be back by the Cardinals' game in Week 2, remember?) but rookie quarterback sensation Deshaun Watson tore his ACL in a non-contact play during practice.

The Cardinals play in Houston in a couple of weeks, by the way, facing instead of the dynamic, mobile Watson probably the not-so-much Tom Savage.

As Bruce Arians always said about injuries, no one is going to feel sorry for us, and certainly, the Cards won't. They've had their own bad, bad luck losing their best offensive player in David Johnson, their quarterback in Carson Palmer and their top 2016 sack man in Markus Golden. But this is a crazy epidemic around the league.

Among those joining Luck, Watson, Palmer, Johnson and Golden out for the season are Aaron Rodgers, J.J. Watt, Odell Beckham, Julian Edelman, Eric Berry, Ryan Tannehill, Cliff Avril, Brandon Marshall (the receiver), Jason Peters and Joe Thomas.

Brutal.