INDIANAPOLIS — For almost a month now, folks around Peyton Manning have spoken, on and off the record, about how the ailing quarterback is improving in his effort to return to football in 2012.
If that’s true — something you get mixed messages on, depending on whom you talk to — then there’s plenty of reason to be optimistic that Manning will, in fact, be ready to go when the next NFL season begins. Or at the very least, there should be some evidence of where he is for prospective employers to review.
Earlier this month, Manning’s agent, Tom Condon, told me the nerves were regenerating in the quarterback’s arm. I asked again about it, and Condon responded, “The regeneration is continuing, his strength is much better, and so we feel really positive about it and he’s determined to play.”
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