In 2007, Brandon Marshall had what many would term a "breakout" season.

In March of 2008, Marshall apparently just caught a bad "break."

It seems about as likely as a fourth round draft pick from Central Florida being on the cusp of NFL superstardom, but this is what Marshall said led to him possibly missing most of the offseason with serious injuries to his right arm.

He says last Saturday morning, about ten or so of his buddies were about to go jet skiing. They started, as Marshall told The Denver Post, what he referred to as "horseplaying" and it ended up with him slipping on a McDonald's bag and crashing through an entertainment system.

As a result, according to The NFL Network, he ended up severing a vein and a nerve in his right forearm. It was also reported that he severed the tendons to five muscles.

I am not going to prejudge anything here, even though Marshall has had his scrapes with the law in Denver and dropped to the fourth round of The NFL Draft in 2006 due somewhat to character issues. I would like to think Marshall has learned from those mistakes, but only one person knows for sure.

I do wonder, though, if he has a clause in his contract that would prevent him from jet skiing. There are stipulations in many contracts as to what physical activities may or may not be off limit to current players. He obviously wasn't injured while on jet skis, but if that is something his contract forbids him to do during his playing days for fear of injury and subsequent non performace, than maybe I can be more skeptical of his excuse here. Until then, though, I believe Brandon and I think most Broncos want to believe him when he said "We'll laugh about it later".

Have a great Tuesday.

"z"