Chiefs Lineman Played Through Super Bowl With Torn UCL

The Kansas City Chiefs overcame the San Francisco 49ers 25-22 in overtime to claim their second consecutive Super Bowl championship. In every triumph, there are stories of players fighting through injuries, but offensive lineman Nick Allegretti might have just won story time.

Allegretti, who was forced to play every snap in the AFC Championship game as he covered the loss of Joe Thuney and in the Super Bowl, was again thrust into the biggest spot of his career.

When playing in such a big game, players want to be 100 percent fit to give their team the best shot at winning, and for Allegretti, he definitely wasn't at full fitness as he suffered a torn UCL in the second quarter.

Allegretti played through and only allowed four pressures on 56 pass-blocking snaps per NFL.com, and he revealed what he went through in the biggest game of his career.

"I haven't suffered an injury like that until then," Allegretti said on The Jim Rome Show. "I immediately knew. It was something that you heard a pop, you felt it, and knowing minimal about anatomy knew that something was wrong in my elbow. Because my elbow is not supposed to bend that way. Fortunately, we had the two-minute warning, and I had a couple seconds to gather myself, figure out that my arm still bent and I was able to go. It was a tough situation, but fortunate enough I was able to still play."