Matthew Stafford’s back is fully healed, per Kelly Stafford

Matthew Stafford’s back is fully healed, according to an Instagram post from his wife Kelly Stafford.

Stafford broke bones in his back during a Week 8 game against the Oakland Raiders. It was initially reported as a six-week injury, and despite a ‘maniacal‘ approach to get back on the field, once the Detroit Lions were eliminated from the Playoffs, they played it safe and placed him on injured reserve.

Now, over 16 weeks removed from the injury, both the Lions general manager Bob Quinn and the Stafford family believe he will be “full go” for offseason workouts.

Quinn made his proclamation at the 2020 NFL Combine, while Kelly took to social media to subtly let fans know that her husband, soon-to-be father of four, and quarterback for your Lions, has a fully healed back.

“At the beginning of jan (January),” Kelly wrote, “after strong antibiotics, our girls started to gain their personalities & weight back. Matthew had gotten word that his back had completely healed and because of symptoms I was having, I got an MRI on my brain that showed no residual from surgery & everything looked normal.”

You can read the entire Instagram post below.

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This game was a few weeks after I told Matthew I was expecting, well really before he found out. The day I found out I was pregnant, was the same day Matthew found out he had broken his back. With that news, I decided I would keep the pregnancy to myself because for so long we had been so worried about my brain and my recovery, I didn’t want him to have to think about me continuing to recover while growing a baby.. I wanted him to have a clear mind so that he could have a quick, successful recovery himself. That lasted 3 days. Matthew is sometimes too smart for his own good. While I was so focused on him, he was focused on me, with the littlest of things clueing him into what was going on. He asked if I was, I said yes, and we hugged it out. The next month & a half was hard and exhausting. Our 3 little ones were extremely sick for weeks, at least one of them throwing up a day.. everyone telling us it was a virus so they fought like the little warriors they are, only for it to turn into pneumonia. Poor things were not themselves for too long. I had zero energy. This pregnancy had been my toughest yet.. messing more so with my head & my balance, making me sick & constantly worried something else was wrong. Then there was my incredible husband trying to keep it together while dealing with his own health issue… & all of this with the holidays were quickly approaching.. & we all know how busy & hectic the holidays are. We made it through, completing all the holiday traditions we had made thus far as a family.. but we were very ready for these tables to turn. They did. At the beginning of jan, after strong antibiotics, our girls started to gain their personalities & weight back. Matthew had gotten word that his back had completely healed and because of symptoms I was having, I got an MRI on my brain that showed no residual from surgery & everything looked normal. We finally felt like we had caught a break. The past 15 months have really taken a toll on me and my family. Next month will mark a year from my brain surgery. It is a year that has helped my family grow in numbers and in strength, but it is a year that I never want to revisit. #StaffordStrong

A post shared by Kelly Stafford (@kbstafford89) on Mar 2, 2020 at 8:40am PST