Complications from a surgery done on Robbie Rogers’ foot this off season leaves the Galaxy defender without a return date to the pitch.

What happened to Robbie Rogers? The Galaxy fullback hasn’t played or practiced since the end of the 2016 season.

Kevin Baxter of the LA Times reported on Friday that, back in December, Rogers had surgery done on his foot, the third operation he has had in the past 16 months. Rogers, though, apparently had a bad reaction to an injection used during the operation, leaving him without any feeling in his foot. Because of the nature of this condition, there is no timeline for Rogers’ return to the field. He even thought about the possibility of retiring because of his foot:

I definitely thought about it. I though, ‘What does this mean to my foot and having another surgery? But at the end, I just kind of overreacted. I was just kind of freaking out after another surgery.

Now the question is, who will replace Rogers in the starting line-up come March 4th? With DeLaGarza and Sorto no longer with the club, LA Confidential has good reason to think that the Galaxy could move Dave Romney over to rightback or look down to LA Galaxy II to fill the role. Either way, this is not a position the Galaxy thought they were going to be in at the end of the 2016 season and have to find a way to fill Rogers’ role, at least temporarily.