Peyton Manning Comments on 2011 Neck Surgery, Doesn’t Have Feeling in Fingertips

August 24, 2015   ·   Tyler Conway   ·   Jump to comments

Since his return from career-threatening neck surgeries in 2011, Peyton Manning has maintained a stoic disposition when discussing his status. No injury was too serious, and nothing would prevent him from regaining his form among the NFL's best quarterbacks.
Now that he has the stats to prove himself right, Manning is ready to admit he's far from 100 percent healthy.
In an interview with MMQB's Peter King, the Broncos quarterback admitted he does not have any feeling in his fingertips:
I can't feel anything in my fingertips. It's crazy. I've talked to a doctor recently who said, Don't count on the feeling coming back. It was hard for me for about two years, because one doctor told me I could wake up any morning and it might come back. So you wake up every day thinking, Today's the day! Then it's not.
At once, Manning's admission helps explain his occasional struggles while making it all the more amazing he remains one of the game's best. It's likely hard t...

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