My question is if it's the latter, why did the definitive diagnosis take so long? The NFL Draft was at the end of April; surely they had him in for minicamps and physicals before mid-August (when they mentioned the surgery). Why couldn't the surgery have been sooner? Honestly I'm not sure which is worse: Not knowing or not telling the truth. Even if the argument is, "They knew, they just didn't want to tell the public and media", it still seems like for the good of the team they should have nipped this shit in the bud as soon as they even thought it was a problem.
And if the answer is, "Well they wanted to see if it was going to heal on it's own", then my rebuttal is, "He sat out all of 2020. If it hasn't healed in a year of not playing, then that's a hint and a half that it's not going to get better on it's own."
I want to be clear I am not angry at Jenkins (or Borom). I'm angry at the Bears medical staff.