CORAL GABLES, Fla. — In his darkest moments while recovering from a torn ACL and meniscus, late at night when sleep failed to come, Don Chaney Jr. questioned himself.
“I was scared I was going to give up on myself,” Chaney said. “I was like, ‘Bro, I don’t know if I can do this.’ I never had an injury like this. I’ve had a shoulder (injury); that’s nothing. But an injury that can take a year or more to come back from — I was like, ‘Bro, I don’t think I can do this.’”
The knee injury, which he suffered in the second game of the 2021 season, cost Chaney most of his second year at Miami. The recovery was tough for the Homestead native. But he drew strength from his family, motivated himself to provide for his daughter, Ava Rose, and became determined to get back on the field. When the Hurricanes hit the Greentree Practice Fields for the first day of fall camp on Friday, Chaney will be ready.
