Tom Brady played through a fully torn MCL during Buccaneers’ Super Bowl season, per report

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The story of Tom Brady’s first season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers has become even more unbelievable. While the 43-year-old set a franchise record with 40 passing touchdowns and led the Buccaneers to a Super Bowl victory, he apparently did so on a fully torn MCL.

On Thursday, Ian Rapoport of the NFL Network reported that Brady played the 2020 season on a fully torn MCL — an injury which he had corrected via surgery this offseason. Previously, we didn’t get many specifics about the mysterious knee surgery Brady had, except that the future Pro Football Hall of Famer described it as “pretty serious,” and it was something Buccaneers head coach Bruce Arians was wary of in mandatory minicamp. Brady also admitted that it was an issue he had been playing through for some time. 

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