{"id":871483,"date":"2026-04-21T23:02:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T23:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/871483\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T23:02:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T23:02:17","slug":"bills-josh-allen-had-a-bizarre-request-for-his-foot-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/871483\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills\u2019 Josh Allen had a bizarre request for his foot surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Josh Allen addressing the media in a blue Sabres hat.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1242\" height=\"828\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/6f2a78c91673f59ee6d3121ff222bf9a.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Josh Allen told reporters on Monday that he wanted to keep the bone from his surgery<\/p>\n<p>Josh Allen wanted a souvenir.<\/p>\n<p>The Bills quarterback went under the knife in January to remove a piece of bone from his right foot, having suffered the injury following a hit from Browns star Myles Garrett in December.<\/p>\n<p>And while Allen told reporters Monday that he was feeling good, he was a little disappointed that he couldn\u2019t leave his surgery with a keepsake.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Josh Allen told reporters on Monday that he wanted to keep the bone from his surgery AP\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ca75d771ab4717a0ef1a47dd74817c14.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Josh Allen told reporters on Monday that he wanted to keep the bone from his surgery AP<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA little piece of bone just kind of broke off and was floating there. So they just went in, took it out, kind of like a small rock,\u201d Allen said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026 Our head trainer, Nate Breske, was there, and apparently, they wrapped it up and threw it away as quickly as they could. And I really wanted it. It may be floating out there, who knows. Black market or something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/josh-allen-injury-revealed-arrives-185544160.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:As for the injury itself;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">As for the injury itself<\/a>, Allen said it was a re-aggravation of an issue he wasn\u2019t aware of at the time.<\/p>\n<p>However, he said Monday that his foot \u201cfeels really good right now\u201d and that he didn\u2019t feel as though he had any limitations.<\/p>\n<p>Allen did not miss any games following his foot injury in Week 16, but Buffalo\u2019s season ended in the Divisional Round against Denver as the star passer committed four turnovers in the heartbreaking overtime loss.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Josh Allen scrambles against the Jets in a game last season. Bill Kostroun\/New York Post\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bc46b7af300c7d542269fd6ac4a443ea.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Josh Allen scrambles against the Jets in a game last season. Bill Kostroun\/New York Post<\/p>\n<p>The four-time Pro Bowler and 2024 MVP is still looking for that elusive first Super Bowl as he enters his ninth season in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/bills-fire-sean-mcdermott-overtime-142118447.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Bills fired head coach Sean McDermott;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">The Bills fired head coach Sean McDermott<\/a> after the season and replaced him with offensive coordinator Joe Brady.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Allen told reporters on Monday that he wanted to keep the bone from his surgery Josh Allen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[215,3926,214,53,2086,231,7329,7,872,1304,6,12654],"class_list":{"0":"post-871483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-bills","8":"tag-bills","9":"tag-bills-quarterback","10":"tag-buffalo","11":"tag-buffalo-bills","12":"tag-buffalobills","13":"tag-denver","14":"tag-foot-injury","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-josh-allen","17":"tag-myles-garrett","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-surgery"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116445194077020322","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}