Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady called his offseason knee surgery “pretty serious” which his knee had troubled him for some time without revealing the specific nature of the injury.
Thursday brings word on that front. Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times reports that Brady had a partly torn medial collateral ligament. Brady said the injury initially emerged in the spring, however Stroud reports that the tear really happened throughout his final season with New England.
Brady, who likewise dealt with an MCL sprain down the stretch of the 2018 season with the Patriots, never appeared on the injury report during the 2020 season. He had surgery to repair it in February after the Bucs beat the Chiefs in the Super Bowl.
Brady is expected to be ready to go when the Bucs open training school later this month.
UPGRADE 4:30 p.m. ET: Ian Rapoport of NFL Media followed up with a report that Bradys MCL was really fully torn.

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