Kevin White might be done for the season with a stress fracture in his leg.
But how did doctors come to the decision to perform surgery on the Bears' first-round pick?
Dr. Charles Bush-Joseph of Midwest Orthopedics at Rush explained how an injury like this is typically treated.
"With his diagnosis, which is a stress fracture of the tibia, the primary treatment is always non-operative. You let them rest, give them every chance to heal," Bush-Joseph said. "So I'm sure that in this situation, (White's doctors) prescribed electrical stimulation and all these non-operative things we have for treating stress fractures, but at the end of the day, it's either going to heal or it's not.