“I can’t feel anything in my fingertips,” Manning told Peter King of Sports Illustrated last week. “It’s crazy. I’ve talked to a doctor recently who said, ‘Don’t count on the feeling coming back.’ It was hard for me for about two years, because one doctor told me I could wake up any morning and it might come back. So you wake up every day thinking, ‘Today’s the day!’ Then it’s not.”
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The Broncos quarterback was forced to miss the entire 2011 season in what would be his final year with the Colts to recover.
Manning has worn a glove on his throwing hand on occasion since signing with the Broncos and will likely sport one again this year.
