According to the Panthers team website, Matt Kalil is healthy for the first time in a long time after recovering from hip surgery in September 2016. Most importantly, this is great news for Matt Kalil the person. Living in pain while rehabbing from surgery is a difficult, sometimes depressing grind, so hopefully this health issue is now behind him as a human being.
That being said...he does get paid millions of dollars to play football, so here comes the next logical question: Matt Kalil may be healthy, but will he be good?
The contract and the performance
As Panthers fans we got spoiled by Jordan Gross anchoring the left tackle position from 2003 to 2013.