"I had a torn MCL [in his left knee]," Allen says. "A groin, but it wasn't a normal groin. It was like so big I couldn't even close my
legs together. It was just filled with fluid inside of my leg. I had a hip contusion that they had to drain. That I think they got 100 CCs out of it. They had to drain that. I had a mild turf toe?"
He says he hurt the knee in the first quarter of the Oct. 12 loss to Houston. "How I stayed in that game, I have no idea. I let them put that brace on there, and I continued to play with it," Allen says. "I played the whole time with my leg feeling loose. And I got through it. I just understood what I needed to do, and what I couldn't do on the field."
Two weeks later, he hobbled off early against Buffalo. In the fourth quarter, he returned an interception 30 yards. "There were plenty of games where I was out there and, boy, there were certain routes, there was no way I would have been able to cover them," he says.
After pulling his groin in Kansas City, Allen spent the week getting treatment at every conceivable hour, whether that meant setting his alarm at 2:30 a.m., arriving at the facility at 6 a.m., spending his breaks in the training room, and inviting Dolphins personnel into his house at night.
