Myles Brennan’s 2020 season ended after just three games due to an ab injury he suffered in LSU’s loss to Missouri.
Brennan took a hard hit early in that game but was able to finish despite knowing instantly that he had a serious injury.
”I just kind of felt everything tear apart but it was the second or third series of the game and I wasn’t going to give up on those guys,” the quarterback said.
Now healthy, Brennan said he feels 100 percent and is competing to once again be named LSU’s starting quarterback.
Getting to this point wasn’t easy for the former St. Stanislas (Miss.) standout and on Thursday he detailed the “frustrating” and “very, very slow healing process.”
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“It’s probably the strangest injury that I have have had,” he said. “I saw a lot of doctors. We sent the MRI to NFL teams, to professional baseball team professional golf coaches, tennis coaches, anything that had to do with the torquing of the lower abdomen, to see if they had any advice and no one had ever seen an injury like this, in this exact spot that I had it.
“So the doctor I met with here in Baton Rouge pretty much told me I had two options. I could let my body heal it on its own literally a day at a time …. And if not he said we could do surgery but (said) ‘I personally have never done surgery on this so we’d be naming the surgery after you if you wanted to.’”
Brennan said he didn’t completely feel comfortable with the idea of getting a surgery named after him and decided to try and let the injury heal on its own. He said and he began feeling like himself around the start of the year and now is excited to be back on the field.
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Tigers head coach Ed Orgeron said earlier in the week that Brennan has looked good in workouts and throughout the team’s first practice.
“He’s done everything in the fourth quarters, running around, he’s run some bootlegs... today he looked very good,” Orgeron said Tuesday. “He threw the ball very well. He’s not complaining about anything.”