On Wednesday, Ohio State wide receiver Emeka Egbuka revealed how severe his left ankle sprain was in the 2023 regular season.
Egbuka suffered the ankle sprain in Ohio State’s 37-17 win over Maryland in Week 6. When team doctors and trainers evaluated him after the contest, Egbuka said the program’s medical staff elected to perform a procedure known as tightrope surgery to expedite his recovery from the ailment.
An increasingly standard procedure to treat high ankle sprains, tightrope surgery involves the attachment of a device to the lower fibula and tibia bones in order to accelerate rehabilitation.