Saints broad receiver Michael Thomas is as wholesome as he’s been in years and on observe to be on the sphere for the beginning of the common season after enjoying in simply 10 video games during the last three seasons.

Ankle and toe surgical procedures have been a part of the rationale for his absence. In each instances, {hardware} was inserted to assist Thomas’ therapeutic course of however it didn’t wind up having the specified impact.

Thomas mentioned that the restoration from each surgical procedures was difficult by his physique’s resistance to the surface {hardware}.

“”Your physique responds and therapeutic responds to it. Whatever, I assume is, the 1%? I assume I’m in that class. . . . I don’t wish to use this as an excuse,” Thomas mentioned, by way of Katherine Terrell of ESPN.com. “But also, when you get surgeries and they put hardware in, sometimes your body rejects the hardware.”

Now that the wideout is wholesome once more, New Orleans will probably be hoping that any surgical points will probably be a part of Thomas’ previous slightly than his future.