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</TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=subHead vAlign=top colSpan=3>Welker's knee surgery to take place Tuesday </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=vaLabel colSpan=3>Wes Welker - WR - NE - Jan. 27 - 5:30 p.m. ET</B> </TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top colSpan=3>Wes Welker (torn ACL, MCL) is scheduled to have his knee reconstructed on Tuesday, February 2.
The swelling in Welker's knee has finally gone down enough for doctors to perform the procedure, but the four-week wait figures to cost him another month of next season. Doctors reportedly have not ruled Welker out for Week 1 of 2010, but the odds are stacked heavily against him being ready by then.
Source: Boston Globe
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The swelling in Welker's knee has finally gone down enough for doctors to perform the procedure, but the four-week wait figures to cost him another month of next season. Doctors reportedly have not ruled Welker out for Week 1 of 2010, but the odds are stacked heavily against him being ready by then.
Source: Boston Globe
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