The Kansas City Chiefs were already without All-Pro guard Joe Thuney during the Super Bowl LVIII matchup against the San Francisco 49ers, and it sounds like they almost lost his backup, too.
During a recent interview with Jim Rome, Chiefs guard Nick Allegretti revealed that he played more than half of the Super Bowl with a torn UCL.
“I haven’t suffered an injury like that until then,” Allegretti told Jim Rome on Friday according to NFL.com. “I immediately knew. It was something that you heard a pop, you felt it, and knowing minimal about anatomy knew that something was wrong in my elbow. Because my elbow is not supposed to bend that way. Fortunately, we had the two-minute warning, and I had a couple seconds to gather myself, figure out that my arm still bent and I was able to go. It was a tough situation, but fortunate enough I was able to still play.”
Obviously, this sounds like a pretty horrible injury. Allegretti acknowledges that the pain was indeed pretty bad, but he was able to play through it in order to help lead his team to the Super Bowl.
“So I was probably in that six or seven [range] right when it happened after I processed it,” Allegretti told Rome. “And then at halftime we were able to get the cream on it, massage it a little bit and then throw a brace on it. I was probably playing at about a five. It was one of those things that I could confidently use the arm knowing that most likely the UCL was already gone, so I wasn’t going to tear it any worse. So if I could deal with the pain, I could play. So it was one of those things.”
Obviously, Allegretti performed well enough to help lead the Chiefs to victory.
[NFL.com]
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