.Marcel Louis-Jacques, ESPNSep thirteen, 2024, 02:00 AM ETCloseMarcel Louis-Jacques participated in ESPN in 2019 as an exhausted media reporter covering the Buffalo Costs, just before changing to the Miami Dolphins in 2021. The past Carolina Panthers beat writer for the Charlotte nc Observer gained the APSE award for beating news and also the South Carolina Media Affiliation award for organization creating in 2018. MIAMI-- Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa endured the 3rd detected trauma of his NFL occupation on Thursday evening in a 31-10 reduction to the Buffalo Costs. Tagovailoa was actually ruled out of the video game in the third one-fourth after a play through which he scurried up the middle for a to begin with down and also lowered his shoulder to initiate exposure to Costs safety and security Damar Hamlin. After Tagovailoa's safety helmet created tough contact with Hamlin's body system, the quarterback instantly went into a fencing action, a condition used to define a person's arms entering an abnormal posture. Dolphins clinical fitness instructors took care of him for many mins as gamers stoop around him. He was inevitably capable to stroll off the area as well as into the crew's storage locker room under his personal electrical power. YearGamesInjury20225Concussions20214Broken ribs/finger20201Thumb20194Ankle/dislocated hip)) Participated in every video game final seasonThe Dolphins have 10 days up until their following game against the Seattle Seahawks however could possibly dismiss Tagovailoa, regardless of just how he advances by means of the league's trauma method. A job on the damaged reservoir may be one more possibility considering his accident past history." Now, [it] is actually even more concerning getting a correct step-by-step evaluation and also taking it 1 day at once," Dolphins train Mike McDaniel mentioned after the video game. "The furthest factor coming from my thoughts is what is the timeline. Our team simply need to have to evaluate and only stress over my ally. ... Our team'll obtain even more relevant information [Friday] and after that take it day after day from certainly there." Listed below are four key questions adhering to Tagovailoa's newest blast. What is actually Tagovailoa's trauma record? Tagovailoa was actually a candidate to become picked as the leading quarterback in the 2020 NFL draught throughout his final period at Alabama yet experienced a hip misplacement and also fracture of the back wall surface of his hip outlet midway by means of the time. He was additionally identified along with a trauma and defective nostrils that year. Tagovailoa recouped on time to bet the Dolphins as a newbie yet missed out on five games in the course of his very first 2 times as a result of various small accidents. In 2022, he was diagnosed along with two blasts as well as took a 3rd hit to his scalp that essentially led to the NFL modifying its own concussion process. He didn't miss a video game throughout the 2023 season, nevertheless, as well as earned a four-year, $212.1 thousand deal expansion in July. What alternatives carried out Tagovailoa consider after his 2022 period? Tagovailoa confessed to for a while looking at retirement life after talks with his family. In the course of a job interview along with "The Dan Le Batard Program" final month, he made clear that it was actually primarily his mom who asked him to reevaluate his playing occupation. Eventually, he chose against it and also invested the 2023 offseason expanding as well as training in a jiujitsu breakfall program to find out exactly how to drop without attacking his head on the ground. The training seemed to aid as he played in all of Miami's video games final season, consisting of a playoff loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. This offseason, Tagovailoa informed CBS Sports he lost 14 pounds in an attempt to be more mobile. play0:37 Mike McDaniel: Tua in 'really good sens' after concussionMike McDaniel points out Tua Tagovailoa was talking with colleagues in the locker room and resides in great sens after enduring a trauma. If Tagovailoa desires to go back to the industry, what difficulties will he must very clear in trauma protocol? McDaniel said Tagovailoa will definitely undertake complete screening and also evaluation just before they decide exactly how to continue. The NFL's return-to-participation protocol is actually a five-step method that winds up in a staff's doctor accepting an individual neurological consultant that a player may safely play once more. The initial step of the method is remainder and recovery "till his symptoms and signs as well as neurologic exam" come back to "baseline standing." The following step is actually light cardiovascular physical exercise, complied with by continuing cardio exercise and also introduction of toughness instruction. A gamer may go back to regulation football tasks in the fourth measure of the procedure, every one of which are noncontact. The ultimate step is actually full approval, the moment the medical professional as well as neurological specialist concur the player prepares. What are the Dolphins' alternatives at quarterback? Will they sign an additional gamer? If Tagovailoa may not play in following full week's game against the Seahawks, third-year quarterback Skylar Thompson remains in product line to begin. Thompson began 3 video games as a rookie in 2022, consisting of a playoff reduction when traveling at Buffalo grass. The only other quarterback on the Dolphins' roster is Tim Boyle, that is actually signed to their strategy team. There are freelance alternatives accessible should Miami determine to produce another quarterback, particularly the team's first-round pick in 2012, Ryan Tannehill. McDaniel performed certainly not devote to the possibility of playing without Tagovailoa yet expressed the "utmost self-confidence" in Thompson. It's not likely Miami will promptly produce yet another quarterback to start over Thompson, but it could possibly add intensity if Tagovailoa is obliged to miss out on opportunity.