Laurent Duvernay Tardif Biography

Laurent Duvernay Tardif born Laurent Duvernay-Tardif MDCM is a Canadian medical graduate and football guard for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL).

He was drafted by the Chiefs in the sixth round of the 2014 NFL Draft. He played college football at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Laurent Duvernay Tardif Age

He was born on 11 February 1991 in Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Canada. As of 2019, he is 28 years old as of 2019.

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Laurent measures 1.96 meters in height.

Laurent Duvernay Tardif Weight

The Kansas City player weighs 146 kilograms.

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Laurent is the husband of Florence-Agathe Dubé-Moreau.

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Laurent Duvernay Tardif Salaire | Laurent Duvernay Tardif Salary

Laurent Duvernay-Tardif signed a 5 year, $42,363,000 contract with the Kansas City Chiefs, including a $10,000,000 signing bonus, $20,203,000 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of $8,472,600.

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On 26 December 2018, the Kansas City Chiefs guard, Laurent, returned to practice after a leg injury in week 5 of the season. The injury put him on the reserve list. Days later, they found out that he also had a torn ankle ligaments and that would keep Laurent out longer.

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On December 12, 2013, it was announced that Duvernay-Tardif had accepted his invitation to play in the 2014 East-West Shrine Game. On January 18, 2014, Duvernay-Tardif played in the 2014 East-West Shrine Game and was part of Jerry Glanville’s East team that defeated the West 23-13.

His performance at the East-West Shrine Game helped improve his draft stock. Duvernay-Tardif did not receive an invitation to the NFL Scouting Combine. On March 27, 2014, Duvernay-Tardif held a personal pro day in Montreal that was attended by nine NFL teams and four Canadian Football League (CFL) teams.

He attended pre-draft visits with multiple teams, including the San Francisco 49ers, Seattle Seahawks, Miami Dolphins, Kansas City Chiefs, Buffalo Bills, and Green Bay Packers. He also participated at a private workout for the Philadelphia Eagles.

At the conclusion of the pre-draft process, Duvernay-Tardif was projected to be drafted anywhere from the third to fifth round by NFL draft experts and scouts. He was ranked as the 12th best offensive tackle prospect in the draft by DraftScout.com.

In the CFL’s Amateur Scouting Bureau final rankings, Duvernay-Tardif was ranked as the best eligible player for the 2014 CFL Draft, a position he held throughout the entirety of the season. However, due to the uncertainty as to his availability as a result of his selection in the NFL Draft, he fell in the draft. He was drafted by the Calgary Stampeders in the third round (19th overall).

Kansas City Chiefs

2014
The Kansas City Chiefs selected Duvernay-Tardif in the sixth round (200th overall) of the 2014 NFL Draft. Duvernay-Tardif was the 15th offensive tackle drafted in 2014. Since the inception of the NFL Draft, Duvernay-Tardif is the tenth player to be chosen from a Canadian university.

On May 14, 2014, the Kansas City Chiefs signed Duvernay-Tardif to a four-year, $2.34 million contract that includes a signing bonus of $100,300. Throughout training camp, Duvernay-Tardif competed to be a starting guard against Zach Fulton, Jeffrey Linkenbach, Rishaw Johnson, Mike McGlynn, and Rokevious Watkins.

Head coach Andy Reid named Duvernay-Tardif the fifth offensive guard on the depth chart to start the regular season, behind Jeff Allen, Zach Fulton, Jeff Linkenbach, and Mike McGlynn.

2015
On September 13, 2015, Duvernay-Tardif made his first career start for the Chiefs in the season opener against the Houston Texans. He went on to play all 16 games with 13 starts for the Chiefs in 2015.

2016
In the 2016 season, Duvernay-Tardif started all 14 games he played in at right guard for the Chiefs.

2017
On February 28, 2017, the Kansas City Chiefs signed Duvernay-Tardif to a five-year, $42.36 million contract that includes $20.20 million guaranteed and a signing bonus of $10 million.

2018
Duvernay-Tardif started the first five games of the 2018 season at right guard before suffering a fractured fibula in Week 5. He was placed on injured reserve on October 9. Chiefs head coach Andy Reid said he will not be out for the season and will be reactivated at some point later in the season.

However, his injury was worse than originally thought, and he didn’t start practicing again until the last week of the schedule. He was activated off injured reserve on January 15, 2019, prior to the Chiefs AFC Championship matchup against the New England Patriots.

Laurent Duvernay Tardif Contract

Laurent Duvernay-Tardif signed a 5 year, $42,363,000 contract with the Kansas City Chiefs, including a $10,000,000 signing bonus, $20,203,000 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of $8,472,600. In 2019, Duvernay-Tardif will earn a base salary of $6,203,000 and a workout bonus of $50,000, while carrying a cap hit of $8,253,000 and a dead cap value of $8,253,000.

Laurent Duvernay Tardif Doctor

Duvernay-Tardif is the fourth active NFL player to have become a medical graduate, and as of the 2018 season, the only active player. He graduated from McGill’s medical school in May 2018. He primarily studied during the off-season prior to mandatory off-season workouts. He had the support of the Chiefs coaching staff, especially head coach Andy Reid, whose mother also graduated from the McGill medical school.

During the 2018 offseason, Duvernay-Tardif worked as a feature reporter for the CBC during its coverage of the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Duvernay-Tardif has been working with the developers of Shockbox, a device that is placed inside of football helmets to measure the impacts received on the field. He says that he hopes that his work will help to prevent concussions in football.

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Laurent Duvernay Tardif Retour Au Jeu| Back to Training

On 3 January 2019, Laurent was expected to be back to training as his ankle kept feeling better. “We’ll have to wait and see how things go in the next few days,” Chiefs Andy Reid said earlier this week. We’ll see how it goes, and how guys will react. I’m sure some of them will wait another week, especially after a week of training. We will have to wait to see how things will unfold.”

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Laurent Duvernay Tardif Nationality

He is a Canadian national.

Laurent Duvernay Tardif Book | Livre De Laurent Duvernay Tardif

On 31 March 2017, a book was released in his honor. The book was called Laurent Duvernay-Tardiff. It was written and published by Pierre Cayouette.

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Canada’s Laurent Duvernay-Tardif returns to Chiefs’ line for AFC title game

Laurent Duvernay-Tardif didn’t need his medical degree to realize he had suffered a serious leg injury in an Oct. 7 game against the Jacksonville Jaguars.

“I knew something was broken,” the Chiefs’ right guard said Wednesday at the team’s training facility, “because I heard it.”

As painful as that sound and injury were for the product of Saint-Hilaire, Que., music to his ears on Tuesday was learning that he was being activated for this weekend’s AFC Championship game.

That means “Larry”, as he is known around Arrowhead Stadium, should be hearing some familiar sounds from the crowd when his team takes on the New England Patriots.

First, when asked about the amount of support he’s received from his homeland since he joined the Chiefs as a sixth-round pick in 2014, the 6-5, 321-pounder lit up.

“A lot, a lot,” said Duvernay-Tardif. “Whether it’s the fans, the French community back in Montreal … NFL Canada is also really helping me. It feels awesome when the Chiefs post something on their Instagram about you being back and a bunch of comments are in French, in the comment section. You’re like, ‘Oh my God, this is awesome.’

“I feel like people from home are watching, and for sure it helped me to push myself, even more, to try to get back as fast as possible, and compete and help the team win.”

So a lot of people travel down from Canada to see you play?

“Every week,” said LDT. “I think, in the past five years, there’s not a single game when I didn’t hear somebody speak French in the stands, yell out my name. Friends or family or people with the (Laurent Duvernay-Tardif) foundation or different events we’re organizing. I’ve been really lucky to have that support through the good years and through the years we didn’t win as much.

“I think it’s really nice to feel like you get all the support from home. Not only your family and friends but the whole community, whether it’s French or English.”

His foundation promotes the importance to students of having a balance between studies and sports.

Duvernay-Tardif was actually more focused on the former than the latter when he grew up. He played football as a kid, but not in high school, and when he arrived at McGill University he was more determined to become a doctor than a football player.

While achieving his degree, he did enough with the Redmen that he was viewed as the top prospect heading into the 2014 CFL draft. But playing in the East-West Shrine game, he also caught the attention of NFL teams.

Duvernay-Tardif was selected in the third round by the Calgary Stampeders just in case things didn’t work out for him in the NFL. But boy, things worked out. Since becoming a sixth-round pick of the Chiefs, he has developed into one of the best guards in the game.

In 2017, he was signed to a five-year, $42.36-million contract that included a $20.2-million guaranteed and a $10-million signing bonus.

Duvernay-Tardif, meanwhile, has maintained that balance in his life. He sailed the east coast in a boat crafted by his family. As a third-year medical student, he cared for prematurely born twins during the NFL draft. He worked as a feature reporter for the CBC during the 2018 Winter Olympics.

He tried to get MD at the end of the nameplate on his Chiefs jersey.

“I think that’s old news. I’m past that,” he said. “I didn’t know it was going to make that big of a story.”

In stories written about him, LDT has been called the most interesting man in the NFL.

“I try not to read the newspapers too much because it’s easy to let your ego build up,” he said. “At the end of the day, you’ve got to block the guy in front of you every week. That’s a challenge in itself so you’ve got to focus on what’s real and what’s in front of you, literally.

“That’s what I try to do, and then for all the bigger projects and stuff, that’s what the off-season is for.”

For now, he’s just preparing for the biggest game of his career. One win from the Super Bowl.

What role he will have against the Patriots is unclear — at least to the media restricted from seeing the reps at Wednesday’s practice. While Duvernay-Tardif was out with a broken leg, Andrew Wylie filled in and ultimately was named the team’s rookie of the year. But the Chiefs cut safety Ron Parker to make room for Duvernay-Tardif. Parker played and played a lot. And the status of safety Eric Berry (heel injury) is up in the air.

So Duvernay-Tardif must figure prominently in coach Andy Reid’s plans.

“To be honest, right now I think we’re just going to go out there and practice,” said LDT. “We’re going to leave it up to coach to decide who’s the best five at this moment, in order to go out there and compete against the Patriots.”

Duvernay-Tardif is sure he could handle a full workload for the entire game.

“I feel pretty confident in my ability to play football right now,” said LDT, who is back in the projected 12-14 week time frame from a broken fibula and ligament damage, an injury that was more complicated than originally thought. “I knew it was going to tight and I was trusting that the team was going to win many games, so we could make it to the playoffs and hopefully I could come back.

“From Day 1, I wanted to get back out there and play with your friends and try to win football games. That was my whole focus throughout the whole rehab. Do everything I can to get back out there. I really feel like we have a special locker room. Of course, I want to contribute, I want to be there. But I think my job for the past couple of weeks was to take care of my body, try to get back on the field, which I did, so I’m pretty happy about that. Now it’s time to compete on the biggest stage.”

Not many Canadians have played in the Super Bowl game.

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