Colts owner Jim Irsay explained that they were hoping Andrew Luck‘s shoulder injury was going to heal on its own and not require surgery. However, that proved to not be the case and his status for Week 1 is now in question.
“There are a lot of times that you hope that you don’t have to have that surgery,” Irsay said a few weeks ago, via Mike Wells of ESPN.com. “You hope that it heals on its own. It wasn’t one of those that totally subluxed out that where it was a ruptured or something like that, where it violently came out and went back in, that sort of thing.