Offensive Lineman · Chicago Bears

Ozzy Trapilo

No. 75 · 2nd season

Ozzy Trapilo returns after a patellar tendon rupture.

A patellar tendon rupture is one of the injuries that can end a career. It tore for Ozzy Trapilo during the playoffs in January -- the moment that should have defined his entire year. Now, months later, the Chicago Bears have activated him. The road back from that kind of damage is measured in small steps: surgery, months of rehabilitation, the slow rebuild of strength and confidence in a leg that had to hold an offensive line together. Trapilo is back on the roster. What happens next -- whether he can play at the level that got him here, whether the knee holds, whether he becomes the player he was before the injury -- is still being written.

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