Here’s what I can tell you:
The FO pushed out the narrative through the Utah media machine that “it’s not a big deal” and that he was “in a boot just as an extreme precaution” and “it’s nothing” and “geez guys, stop asking about this, it’s nothing.” Then 1-2 years later DL give an interview about Donovan and says something like “yeah, you know he suffered a bunch of setbacks and wasn’t able to train/whatever over the summer because of his injury and because he was in a boot” as if he’d been saying that the whole time.