I think they can use plausible deniability here because whatever was bothering Burrow before was not the same injury that took him out and therefore was not a “wrist problem”. It could have been carpal tunnel for all we know. My wife wears a wrist brace at work for that. Maybe he was playing video games on the plane and just wanted to wear a brace so he wouldn’t get any pain to crop up or something.
An artist is the artist and they can do what they want with their work. “Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
That said, it rarely interests me to do such a thing and I wouldn’t read it in most cases.