On January 1, 2017, Jake Butt tore his ACL in the Orange Bowl against Florida State.
Now, over 18 months later, he’s one of the most promising young prospects on the Denver Broncos and finally back to suiting up in a fully-padded uniform.
Though Butt has been ‘healthy’ for a while now, he’s finally playing football at full speed and it didn’t occur to him until he was putting pads in his pants prior to the Broncos’ first full-pad practice on Tuesday that it had been nearly 18 months since he’d done so.