The Green Bay Packers have shut star quarterback Jordan Love down after he underwent a procedure on his left thumb. Interestingly, Love recently spoke on the procedure and revealed that he could’ve played through it, but elected for the surgery instead.
“That was part of the debate, whether to get surgery or whether you don’t get surgery,” Love said Thursday, via the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “If this were in the middle of the season, it would probably be something we wouldn’t get the surgery on.
“But with it still being early, I’m having time to recover, be fully ready for Week 1, the recommendation was to get the surgery.”
Love also said that he’ll start to work his way back into things next week.
“Once I get throwing and moving around and things like that, we’ll just play it by ear,” he said. “But next week we should be starting.”
Fans reacted to Love on social media.
“But the chicken little sky is falling idiots on social media and TV were acting like this was a big deal,” one fan wrote on Twitter.
“I said this last night to a friend. It might even have been more about his long term health of the digit than anything football related,” one fan added.
“He’ll be ready to throw 3 picks week 1 and listen to his head coach make the excuse of ‘limited participation,'” someone else wrote.
It’ll be interesting to see how Love looks when he returns to action.
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