So there was more to that Andrew Luck injury that kept the former first overall pick out all of last season despite the Colts insisting that he was nearing a return that ultimately never happened.
Luck’s missed time was attributed to surgery performed on the labrum on his throwing shoulder and a sprained AC joint. But that sprained AC joint, was that football related or were the rumors true that the Indy QB suffered the ailment during the offseason pretending he was competing in the X Games?
Well the truth is out, Luck suffered the injury during a 2016 snowboarding accident that he along with the Colts kept under wraps.
Via NFL.com:
Earlier this week, in a conversation with NFL.com, Luck detailed a previously secret injury to his right shoulder that either complicated his recovery or made him realize how lucky he was.
Luck confirmed that during the winter of 2016 he was in a snowboarding accident in Colorado that left him with a sprained AC joint in his throwing shoulder. It was the offseason after the labrum tear against the Titans in 2015, the offseason after he lacerated his kidney on the field. And yes, he still went snowboarding. No, he will not be doing that again.
Luck reportedly told the Colts as soon as he suffered the injury to the AC joint and insists that it didn’t have any impact on his recovery from his labrum surgery. Nor does the Colts QB admit that the AC joint sprain was even a contributing factor to his season long absence 2017. In any sense though, Lucks opinion isn’t going to quite any speculation that the AC sprain due to snowboarding did have an effect on Luck’s recovery.
What does seem certain though is Luck has put any X-Games aspirations behind him.
Via CBSSports.com:
The Colts need not worry, however, because Luck won’t be snowboarding again anytime soon. “I don’t snowboard anymore,” he said. “And this was after the initial injury. I went back, rehabbed it with the Colts. I’ve had a bunch of AC sprains, both left and right shoulder, and resolved that issue. But the labrum has been my issue, was my issue, what I worked through, what I got surgery on.”
