Rams defensive end Chris Long returned from foot surgery to play the final five games of 2014, but that didn’t mean he was totally healthy. No, the injury he suffered on opening day last season didn’t go away easily.
The treatment and rehab work continued far into this past offseason.
“It’s been a grind,” Long said recently. “Mentally, really a grind because you’re just like, man, I want to be myself again.”
Over the last couple of weeks in June, as the offseason practices wound down, Long began to feel like himself.
And now, with the Rams in the midst of their second week of training camp, the foot has not been an issue.