Adam Schefter reports an update on Marcus Mariota's leg injury and discloses that Mariota will have a plate inserted to support his fractured right fibula and will miss up to four-to-five months, missing a portion of the Titans' offseason program. (0:48)

Mariota will have plate inserted to support right fibula (0:48)

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Marcus Mariota is having surgery on his right fibula Wednesday. The Tennessee Titans are optimistic he will be back for organized team activities after a four- to five- month recovery.

Last year's OTAs started on May 26. If the schedule is similar in 2017, that would put him in the clear to participate.

May 24th will be five months from Mariota's surgery date.

Phase 1 of OTAs is two weeks during which the team covers only strength and conditioning.

Phase 2 is three weeks of non-contact work that allows for positional work and work as an offense or defense, but not against the other unit.

Phase 3 is three weeks of non-contact work that allows seven-on-seven passing drills, nine-on seven run-game work and 11-on-11 drills.

That last section includes three days of minicamp and is the most important.

If the team follows a similar schedule to the one from 2015, that stage would start around June 21, and that would be six months and a week removed from Mariota's surgery.

I’m sure they will be careful with him along the way.

But if the recovery schedule and the OTA schedule line up as they should, it’s not at all pushing it to expect him to be in the middle of the huddle of the team’s most meaningful offseason work.