Carolina Panthers tight end Greg Olsen had a successful second surgery on his foot about two weeks ago, after going on injured reserve in Week 15 with a ruptured plantar fascia.
The surgery was not to repair the plantar fascia, which Olsen said will heal (painfully) on its own, but to clean up the Jones fracture repair he had done after the 2017 season in which a screw was put in his foot.
“They took the screw out, cleaned the bone up. I had some stuff going on in there just from the trauma of running around with a fractured bone,” he said Wednesday, as he stood in the locker room with his right leg on a foot-scooter, foot in a brace.