“Bone Injury” For Tristan Wirfs
August 24th, 2025
While Joe has a doctorate in Bucs news, nuggets and nonsense, that higher education does not extend to the medical field.
So Joe was intrigued reading about Bucs left tackle Tristan Wirfs’ recent chat with John Romano of the behind-a-pay-wall, sold-their-headquarters, can’t-fund-our-pension, debt-strangled, twice-weekly community newspaper known as the Tampa Bay Times.
Wirfs said he’s a maybe to return for Week 3 of the regular season but his recovery timetable after July knee surgery remains a mystery.
“It’s definitely not going to be Week 2,” Wirfs said. “The biggest thing is how I’m progressing over the next few weeks. I still haven’t done anything on the field, I haven’t done a dynamic warmup yet. Because it was a bone injury, it needs time to heal.”
Bone injury?
It sounds like Wirfs cartiledge has eroded.
“Wirfs had a bone marrow aspirate concentrate (BMAC) procedure that involves using bone marrow injected into damaged cartilage to stimulate natural healing,” Romano wrote.
Wirfs expressed his frustration in a delayed diagnosis as his knee worsened earlier this year and he got conflicting medical advice.
Joe’s starting to wonder how long it will take Wirfs to be ready, and how close Wirfs will get to 100 percent this season.