Part of the cost of winning the Super Bowl has been offseason surgeries, the Eagles have found. Players who made it through the 19-game grind might not have done so without incurring damage.
Brandon Graham, whose strip sack of Tom Brady is on the short list of Super Bowl LII’s biggest plays, has undergone a procedure to speed the healing of a high ankle sprain, Graham acknowledged Wednesday, confirming an ESPN.com report. According to online medical references, such surgery is done if ligament damage keeps the tibia and fibula too far apart. Normally it involves placing screws to draw those bones back into a normal range.