.Marcel Louis-Jacques, ESPNSep 13, 2024, 02:00 AM ETCloseMarcel Louis-Jacques signed up with ESPN in 2019 as an exhausted press reporter dealing with the Buffalo Bills, just before changing to the Miami Dolphins in 2021. The former Carolina Panthers hammered article writer for the Charlotte Viewer succeeded the APSE honor for breaking updates as well as the South Carolina Press Association award for organization creating in 2018. MIAMI-- Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa endured the third diagnosed trauma of his NFL career on Thursday evening in a 31-10 reduction to the Buffalo Costs. Tagovailoa was dismissed of the video game in the 3rd quarter after a play in which he clambered up the middle for a to begin with down and also decreased his shoulder to launch exposure to Costs protection Damar Hamlin. After Tagovailoa's safety helmet made hard exchange Hamlin's physical body, the quarterback immediately went into a securing reaction, a condition utilized to explain an individual's arms entering into an unnatural position. Dolphins health care trainers addressed him for numerous moments as gamers stoop around him. He was inevitably capable to walk off the industry and also in to the crew's locker area under his very own electrical power. YearGamesInjury20225Concussions20214Broken ribs/finger20201Thumb20194Ankle/dislocated hip)) Played every activity last seasonThe Dolphins have 10 days till their next video game against the Seat Seahawks yet can rule out Tagovailoa, despite exactly how he advances with the organization's concussion procedure. An assignment on the injured reservoir could be one more possibility considering his personal injury background." Immediately, [it] is extra about obtaining an appropriate step-by-step evaluation and taking it someday at a time," Dolphins instructor Mike McDaniel claimed after the game. "The furthest factor from my thoughts is what is actually the timeline. Our company only need to examine and also only bother with my teammate. ... Our experts'll receive additional information [Friday] and afterwards take it everyday coming from there certainly." Below are four crucial questions complying with Tagovailoa's latest trauma. What is Tagovailoa's injury record? Tagovailoa was actually a prospect to become chosen as the leading quarterback in the 2020 NFL draft during his final period at Alabama but suffered a hip dislocation and crack of the back wall of his hip socket midway via the time. He was actually additionally identified with a blast and also damaged nostrils that year. Tagovailoa recouped in time to bet the Dolphins as a rookie but missed out on 5 activities during his very first two seasons due to different slight accidents. In 2022, he was diagnosed along with 2 blasts as well as took a 3rd favorite to his scalp that essentially led to the NFL modifying its own concussion method. He didn't skip a game during the 2023 time, nonetheless, as well as gained a four-year, $212.1 thousand arrangement extension in July. What possibilities performed Tagovailoa take into consideration after his 2022 season? Tagovailoa acknowledged to briefly taking into consideration retired life after discussions along with his loved ones. In the course of a meeting along with "The Dan Le Batard Show" final month, he clarified that it was actually predominantly his mother that inquired him to reevaluate his participating in career. Ultimately, he determined versus it and also invested the 2023 offseason bulking up and also training in a jiujitsu breakfall course to discover just how to drop without striking his directly the ground. The instruction seemed to be to help as he played in each of Miami's activities last time, consisting of a playoff loss to the Kansas Urban Area Chiefs. This offseason, Tagovailoa said to CBS Sports he shed 14 pounds in an initiative to be even more mobile phone. play0:37 Mike McDaniel: Tua in 'really good sens' after concussionMike McDaniel claims Tua Tagovailoa was speaking with colleagues in the storage locker room as well as is in really good spirits after going through a blast. If Tagovailoa intends to go back to the industry, what hurdles will he have to clear in concussion protocol? McDaniel pointed out Tagovailoa will undergo comprehensive screening and evaluation before they choose just how to continue. The NFL's return-to-participation method is actually a five-step process that culminates in a group's physician accepting a private neurological specialist that a gamer can properly play once more. The primary step of the method is remainder and also recuperation "up until his symptoms and signs and also neurologic examination" go back to "baseline standing." The following step is actually light cardiovascular physical exercise, complied with through continuing aerobic exercise as well as overview of stamina training. A player can easily return to soccer activities in the 4th action of the procedure, all of which are actually noncontact. The final action is total approval, once the medical professional as well as nerve professional agree the player prepares. What are actually the Dolphins' choices at quarterback? Will they sign yet another gamer? If Tagovailoa can not play in following full week's game versus the Seahawks, third-year quarterback Skylar Thompson resides in series to start. Thompson started three video games as a novice in 2022, consisting of a playoff loss when driving at Buffalo grass. The only other quarterback on the Dolphins' lineup is actually Tim Boyle, that is actually signed to their technique team. There are free agent possibilities offered need to Miami determine to introduce yet another quarterback, especially the crew's first-round selection in 2012, Ryan Tannehill. McDaniel carried out not devote to the opportunity of participating in without Tagovailoa yet shared the "utmost confidence" in Thompson. It's unlikely Miami will immediately produce one more quarterback to begin again Thompson, yet it could incorporate deepness if Tagovailoa is compelled to skip opportunity.