The Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl-winning team from 2019-20 will forever be known for its unique characters during the memorable run. One of those characters was Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, who earned his medical degree while playing in the NFL.
The first championship in 50 years, followed by a global pandemic, saw many players around the league opt out of the 2020 season, including Duvernay-Tardif. He spent the year helping in the fight against the COVID-19 and earning accolades around the sports world for his efforts.
After returning to football last year, spending the first half of the year in Kansas City before later being traded to the New York Jets, Duvernay-Tardif has decided to put his football career on hold again. The Canadian native is set to begin his medical residency in July 2022 back home at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. The former 2015 draft pick announced via his Facebook page his intentions to return to the medical field.
