Wiegmann Remembers Appendectomy

Chiefs ironman Casey Wiegmann doesn’t have much experience missing football games. He’s played in 9,877 consecutive snaps since 2001, covering a span of 155 straight games. Prior to the 2001 season, Wiegmann had played in 48 consecutive games.

Add it all together and Wiegmann has missed just one NFL game since 1998. The lone blip was because of an appendectomy.

"It took me a couple of weeks to recover, but it was at the end of the preseason and they didn’t want to rush me back too fast," Wiegmann remembered. "I could have played in one of those weeks, but they didn’t want to risk it for the rest of the year."