After he was released from the hospital and booked Sunday on assault charges in Indianapolis, former Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez said he is “grateful” to the doctor who “saved my life”
Sanchez commented publicly for the first time after he was booked into Marion County Jail, but he did not discuss the case in which he was stabbed but later charged with felony assault and three misdemeanors following an altercation last weekend outside a bar with an elderly truck driver .
“Right now I’m just focused on my recovery,” Sanchez told local TV reporter Max Lewis of Fox59 News and CBS 4 Indy, according to a video posted on X. “I just wanted to thank the first responders, Eskenazi Hospital…and I just want to thank Dr. [Lindsey] Mossler, the surgeon. She saved my life, so I’m grateful fo