Kansas City Chiefs offensive lineman Laurent Duvernay-Tardif chose to opt out of last season so that he could put his medical training to use on the front lines of the pandemic in his hometown of Montreal. He also missed all of the team’s voluntary OTA sessions during the last three weeks.
So when he appeared in a Zoom conference call after the team’s first mandatory minicamp practice on Tuesday, Kansas City reporters had a lot of questions for him — including what it had been like to not wear a football helmet for over a year.