In a way, it isn’t very newsworthy when an NFL player who chose to opt out of the 2020 season because of the coronavirus pandemic says they are planning to return. For a typical NFL player, that’s something we’d just assume to be true.
But then again, Kansas City Chiefs offensive guard Laurent Duvernay-Tardif is anything but typical. He chose to use his opt-out year working to fight against the pandemic — and more than a few observers figured that he might choose to do the same in 2021.
But in a post he shared on his Instagram account, the league’s only player who is also a medical doctor announced that he is, in fact, returning to the Chiefs in 2021 — albeit with a whole new perspective.