Green Bay Packers left tackle David Bakhtiari has had four surgeries since his torn ACL in 2020. His knee required three. Now an appendectomy.
For Bakhtiari, the appendectomy only continued the wild ride his life has taken over the past two years. If Bakhtiari is the one player inside the Packers locker room who might pull a prank over an appendectomy, he’s also become the player most likely to have a fluke medical issue. It was New Year’s Eve 2020 when Bakhtiari tore his ACL, an injury that usually comes with a nine- to 12-month recovery.
Most frustrating, Bakhtiari said, is that his knee situation had stabilized in the weeks before his appendectomy. Bakhtiari had a surprise absence Week 7 against Washington. A week earlier, he’d played 69 snaps against the New York Jets. He practiced that week, but the Packers downgraded him to questionable one day before the game. Rookie Zach Tom got his first NFL start at left tackle a day later.
Bakhtiari hadn’t missed a start since Washington. He’d played 100% of the Packers snaps in four of their five games before Chicago, including every snap on their Thursday night game against the Tennessee Titans, four days after playing every snap against the Dallas Cowboys. He could feel his knee getting into a groove. Bakhtiari said his colon got roughly 500 micro staples, which he saw on scans after his surgery. “It’s gnarly,” he said. It feels worse than it looks.
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