Right guard Laurent Duvernay-Tardif has begun practicing with the Kansas City Chiefs, the team announced Wednesday.
As you’ll recall, Duvernay-Tardif broke his leg (more specifically, he suffered a fractured fibula) in Week 5 against the Jacksonville Jaguars and was placed on injured reserve. As our in-house medical expert Aaron Borgmann noted immediately afterward, it was possible that this injury might have been a Maisonneuve fracture — a spiral fracture of the upper tibia.
This turned out to be the case.
While this sounded bad, Borgmann noted that because the fibula supports just one-sixth of the body’s weight, it is less impactful to than a fracture to the larger tibia that is alongside it — and while the repair of this injury tends to be more complex, it wouldn’t necessarily require a longer time to recover from it.