{"id":872393,"date":"2026-04-23T03:15:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/872393\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T03:15:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:15:24","slug":"colts-head-coach-shane-steichen-picked-brad-stevens-brain-on-achilles-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/872393\/","title":{"rendered":"Colts head coach Shane Steichen picked Brad Stevens\u2019 brain on Achilles recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">On Tuesday, during his pre-draft availability, Indianapolis Colts head coach Shane Steichen indicated that he picked the brain of Boston Celtics\u2019 NBA Champion President of Basketball Operations (and former Butler University Men\u2019s Basketball coach) Brad Stevens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Only, it wasn\u2019t really about basketball.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Rather, Steichen sought out any guidance that Stevens may be able to share regarding Achilles post-surgery recovery, after Celtics star forward <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/5765\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jayson Tatum;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Jayson Tatum&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jayson Tatum<\/a> previously underwent Achilles surgery by the same surgeon who recently performed Colts starting quarterback Daniel Jones\u2019 procedure a few months ago (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1942652605475541193?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:via The Athletic\u2019s James Boyd;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;via The Athletic\u2019s James Boyd&quot;}\" class=\"link \">via The Athletic\u2019s James Boyd<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It\u2019s not the first time that Stevens has offered his insight he has firsthand experienced with his star player\u2019s recovery from a torn Achilles with an Indianapolis professional sports head coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1942652605475541193?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Specifically, Stevens reached out to Indiana Pacers head coach Rick Carlisle last July regarding Pacers star point guard Tyrese Haliburton, who suffered the same devastating Achilles injury\u2014only during Game 7 of last summer\u2019s NBA Finals.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Specifically, Stevens reached out to Indiana Pacers head coach Rick Carlisle last July regarding Pacers star point guard Tyrese Haliburton, who suffered the same devastating Achilles injury\u2014only during Game 7 of last summer\u2019s NBA Finals.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Specifically, Stevens reached out to Indiana Pacers head coach Rick Carlisle last July regarding Pacers star point guard Tyrese Haliburton, who suffered the same devastating Achilles injury\u2014only during Game 7 of last summer\u2019s NBA Finals. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It is good to know that Jones, who\u2019s already throwing and performing drop-backs on his road to regaining his prior breakout career year form, isn\u2019t alone in his recovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Rather, there have been a number of star professional athletes who have suffered the same injury and underwent the same surgery, and there\u2019s an established protocol for rehabilitation and recovery. There are likely some helpful tips that Stevens can share regarding what worked well and what didn\u2019t\u2014and what to reasonably expect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The early signs regarding Jones recovery are encouraging, and he\u2019s arguably ahead of schedule\u2014with a hopeful and still realistic return by Colts training camp in mid-to-late July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Tuesday, during his pre-draft availability, Indianapolis Colts head coach Shane Steichen indicated that he picked the brain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2059],"tags":[433,14009,118197,2005,15475,2772,7,2004,392,2381,11622,14011,7502,6,4975,23871],"class_list":{"0":"post-872393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-boston","9":"tag-boston-celtics","10":"tag-brad-stevens","11":"tag-colts","12":"tag-dallas-mavericks","13":"tag-daniel-jones","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-indianapolis","16":"tag-indianapolis-colts","17":"tag-indianapoliscolts","18":"tag-james-boyd","19":"tag-jayson-tatum","20":"tag-massachusetts","21":"tag-nfl","22":"tag-shane-steichen","23":"tag-torn-achilles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116451850584115614","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872393","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=872393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}