You can call it "unfortunate injuries" if that makes you feel better. That's a fair assessment of it. But the point remains, it's happened to him...and has kept him out of the lineup for significant periods. An ironman he is not. And the durability of players and that sort of thing doesn't typically improve as a player ages later into their 30s. Maybe they are just "unfortunate injuries" and he'll buck the trend, but there's a reasonable expectation that he may not. That's going to raise questions on a contract like this.
Not sure I fully agree. Bryan Little was always a very durable player for most of his career. His games lost from the beginning of his career were 3, 3, 5, 8, 0, 0, 12, 25*, 23*
His two big injuries were a freak accident where he fractured his neck on the Stralman hit then two shifts into last season he had a guy fall on him in an odd way. Those came kind of back to back but once he was back last season he was fine. Of coarse as guys get older there is always risk but Little has had a decent track record.
When I think of guys for the Jets who have ongoing durability issues I think of Perreault, Kane, Bogosian, Myers, and Enstrom after he was 30.
I guess we will find out over the next few seasons but I expect Little to return back to his healthy ways this season.