I think most of my injuries last year were due probably to the fact that I didn’t have an offseason. I had a surgery, I came back and played a game right at six months after an ACL surgery, so I think that rapid recovery kind of hurt everything else,” Mankins said during a volunteer appearance with his wife Kara at the Kraft Family Blood Donor Center. “I made it through the year. It will be nice to actually have an offseason this year.