Who could blame Chiefs players if they felt a need to lay low after last season’s disappointing home playoff loss to the Steelers?
Offensive guard Laurent Duvernay-Tardif didn’t have time for that.
He returned to his native Montreal to medical school a week after the AFC divisional round playoff loss.
Two months of emergency medicine and one month of geriatric medicine filled Duvernay-Tardif’s days and by this time next year, he expects to be a medical school graduate.
“I’m pretty much done with the clinical part of medical school,” Duvernay-Tardif said. “Now I just have to study for the big exam, which is next May for me.