Thanks. The good news is that early in the season the games were widely spaced apart, and one game was rescheduled due to rain. He was out six weeks for the mono. The elbow happened during that recovery, and pushed the window out one more week. He is really having no side-effects and hasn't had symptoms for about eight weeks. It's not been a good year for him, though. He got COVID on January 2, caught a nasty cold three weeks later, then two weeks after that was diagnosed with mono, then a month later cracked his elbow. The boy needs to be in a bubble. With that said, though, there's some evidence that outbreaks of mono are actually related to having had COVID, so those two could be connected.
But anyhow ... he's on the bench because the coach says (BS) that he's not ready a month later. The kid is back in shape, and he's not going to get into better shape on the bench.