Quarterback John Sacca's injury-plagued season came to an end Wednesday afternoon when he injured his knee during practice.

When a lineman landed on Sacca, the medial collateral ligament in the quarterback's knee was torn. Usually during the drills a pass rush is simulated, but no contact is made on quarterbacks. When Sacca dropped back to pass, a teammate was accidentally shoved into the sophomore quarterback.

"I'm a little disappointed," Sacca said from his home. "But there's not much you can do. You take the good with the bad."

Presently on crutches, Sacca begins rehabilitation in about a week. The injury will not require surgery, but the healing process will take six weeks, thus ending Sacca's season.

The knee damage typifies the injury-riddled season Sacca has endured. He was named the starter for the season opener in Cincinnati, but his debut was terminated by a shoulder injury that forced him to miss the next game as well.

Against Miami in week six, Sacca again jarred his shoulder but remained in the game and started the subsequent week against Boston College. But late in the fourth quarter against the Eagles, he was knocked out of the game when he re-injured the shoulder.

Kerry Collins, just returning from a broken finger, replaced the ailing Sacca against West Virginia, and will remain the Lion's starter.

"If anything good came out of this," Sacca said with a laugh, "at least I'll get a chance to rest my shoulder and recover."