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Marcel Louis-Jacques, ESPNSep 17, 2024, 05:20 PM ET
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- Marcel Louis-Jacques signed up with ESPN in 2019 as a beat press reporter covering the Buffalo Bills, before changing to the Miami Dolphins in 2021. The previous Carolina Panthers beat author for the Charlotte Observer won the APSE award for breaking news and the South Carolina Press Association award for business writing in 2018.
Editor's note: This story was initially released Sept. 13, following Miami's loss to Buffalo. On Tuesday, a source validated to ESPN that the Dolphins are putting Tagovailoa on hurt reserve.
MIAMI– After the Miami Dolphins' Tua Tagovailoa was detected with the 3rd concussion of his NFL profession, a source informed ESPN on Tuesday that the quarterback will be put on hurt reserve and be out for a minimum of 4 video games.
Tagovailoa was dismissed in the 3rd quarter of the Dolphins' 31-10 loss to the Buffalo Bills on Thursday after a play in which he rushed up the middle for an initially down and decreased his shoulder to start contact with Bills security Damar Hamlin. After Tagovailoa's helmet reached Hamlin's body, the quarterback was up to the ground and entered into a fencing action, a term utilized to explain an individual's arms entering into an abnormal position.
Dolphins medical fitness instructors addressed Tagovailoa for a number of minutes as gamers knelt around him. He was eventually able to stroll off the field and into the locker space under his own power.
From that point, Dolphins had 10 days up until their next video game versus the Seattle Seahawks to dismiss Tagovailoa, despite how he advances through the league's concussion procedure. They eventually positioned him on IR.
He is not ensured to return when Miami hosts the Arizona Cardinals in Week 8. The group is not hurrying its just recently crowned franchise quarterback back from another distressing head injury. Tagovailoa will look for viewpoints from several independent neurologists before going back to the field.
When inquired about Tagovailoa's future in football, Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel stated it depended on the quarterback to choose.
“As far as Tua's profession is worried, I believe it's of utmost top priority of mind for Tua to speak on Tua's profession,” McDaniel stated. “So I believe reports are reports. As far as I'm worried, I'm simply fretted about the human and where that's at everyday, and I believe I'll let Tua be the champ of his own profession and speak on that.”
This is the very first time Miami has actually been required to play without its beginning quarterback because 2022, when Skylar Thompson and Teddy Bridgewater began a combined 5 video games, consisting of a playoff loss to the Bills. Considering that Tagovailoa went into the league in 2020, Miami is 33-20 in video games he began and 7-9 in those all other QBs began, consisting of Thompson, Bridgewater, Jacoby Brissett and Ryan Fitzpatrick.
