The New Orleans Saints are off to another great start this year, coming off of a Super Bowl victory in 2009. Having said this, things may get a bit more difficult for the champs who lost their star running back, Reggie Bush, yesterday in a game against the San Francisco 49ers. In the game Reggie Bush dove for a ball, and then had a player fall on top of him. This incident ended up braking his fibula.

Although a broken leg seems like a major injury for a running back in the NFL, Bush is likely to return from the injury by week 9, if not sooner. The fibula is the smallest of four bones in the human leg, and usually takes 6 weeks to heal in a cast. The 25 year old Bush described the injury to reporters after the game Sunday, saying “It hurt like hell. When I got back up and tried to walk on it, it felt terrible.”

This has been a rough week for the running back, first having returned his Heisman Trophy after being accused by the NCAA of receiving improper benefits from USC, and now this injury.