One prospect the New Orleans Saints may be eyeing in the 2020 NFL Draft just went under the knife. NFL Network’s Mike Garafolo reported that Arizona State wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk went through a core-muscle procedure on Tuesday. The injury this surgery repaired has dogged Aiyuk throughout the pre-draft process, but he gutted it out to finish athletic testing at this year’s NFL Scouting Combine.
While he described as a minor issue, Aiyuk did sit out Senior Bowl practices and the all-star game itself out of an abundance of caution. “If the Senior Bowl was next week, I would have been fine,” he told The Denver Post’s Ryan O’Halloran back in January.