After 9 1/2 months of recovery, of professional and personal highs and lows, of public scrutiny over when he would return from knee surgery, and of his own self-admitted "built up almost-anxiety" during the process, Carson Wentz hardly celebrated when he was finally cleared to play football again.
"I'll celebrate after the season," Wentz said Wednesday, two days after the Eagles officially announced he would start Sunday against the Colts. "I got a lot of work to do first."
Wentz texted his wife, Maddie, when the decision was final. But the 25-year-old quarterback couldn't even recall what we wrote, he said, because they had known it was coming.