Cleveland Browns wide receiver Jarvis Landry underwent successful hip surgery earlier this month to repair an injury that had been nagging him all season.
Landry had initially hoped to avoid the procedure, but a shaky Pro Bowl in which the wide out physically struggled convinced him to do something about his issue.
“I felt like if I got together with the team doctors, got together with my doctors, that we could formulate a plan for this offseason to be able to manage me again throughout the year to be able to make it through the season,” Landry said in an Instagram video, via Mary Kay Cabot of The Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Going into Pro Bowl, given that I was off three weeks, and thinking that I was going to feel better and then playing in the game — which obviously wasn’t really a game, we were just jogging around, having fun — and I realized how much pain I was in from even just doing that. I was kinda happy that I went to Pro Bowl because that was more of an indication of why I needed the surgery.”
The injury did not stop Landry from playing in every game this past season, as the veteran hauled in 83 receptions for 1,174 yards and six touchdowns en route to his fifth straight Pro Bowl selection.
Landry, who played his collegiate football at LSU, was originally selected by the Miami Dolphins in the second round (63rd pick overall) of the 2014 NFL Draft.
The 27-year-old spent the first four years of his career with the Dolphins, making a couple of Pro Bowl appearances before being traded to to the Browns in March 2018.
During his first season in Cleveland, Landry caught 81 passes for 976 yards and four scores.
He has never missed a game throughout his NFL tenure.
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