Tom Brady’s thumb injury prior to the AFC championship game in the 2017 NFL season was a growing worry prior to the game against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
And now we know just how serious it was.
Brady and the secretive New England Patriots kept the injury under wraps as best they could — literally and figuratively. But an excerpt in the New York Post from an upcoming book by Jeff Benedict, “The Dynasty,” shows just how worrisome it was at the time.
In practice that week, Brady handed off to Rex Burkhead — but it was far from a routine play.