.Marcel Louis-Jacques, ESPNSep thirteen, 2024, 02:00 AM ETCloseMarcel Louis-Jacques participated in ESPN in 2019 as a beat media reporter covering the Buffalo grass Expenses, before switching over to the Miami Dolphins in 2021. The former Carolina Panthers hammered author for the Charlotte Viewer won the APSE honor for breaking information and the South Carolina Media Organization award for business writing in 2018. MIAMI-- Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa went through the third detected trauma of his NFL occupation on Thursday evening in a 31-10 loss to the Buffalo Bills. Tagovailoa was ruled out of the activity in the third one-fourth after a play in which he scrambled up the middle for an initially down as well as lowered his shoulder to start contact with Bills safety Damar Hamlin. After Tagovailoa's headgear helped make difficult exposure to Hamlin's body system, the quarterback right away entered a fencing reaction, a phrase utilized to describe an individual's upper arms entering into a strange posture. Dolphins medical personal trainers addressed him for numerous moments as players knelt around him. He was inevitably able to stroll off the area and also in to the group's closet space under his very own energy. YearGamesInjury20225Concussions20214Broken ribs/finger20201Thumb20194Ankle/dislocated hip)) Played every game last seasonThe Dolphins possess 10 days up until their following activity versus the Seat Seahawks however might dismiss Tagovailoa, despite how he proceeds through the game's trauma method. A job on the harmed reserve can be another option considering his accident background." Today, [it] is actually even more concerning receiving an effective procedural assessment as well as taking it 1 day each time," Dolphins instructor Mike McDaniel stated after the game. "The furthest thing from my thoughts is what is actually the timetable. Our team merely need to have to review and also simply bother with my ally. ... Our experts'll obtain more information [Friday] and after that take it daily from there certainly." Listed here are four crucial inquiries complying with Tagovailoa's newest blast. What is actually Tagovailoa's trauma history? Tagovailoa was a prospect to become chosen as the top quarterback in the 2020 NFL draught in the course of his last season at Alabama yet went through a hip misplacement and bone fracture of the posterior wall surface of his hip outlet midway with the season. He was actually also detected with a concussion as well as broken nostrils that year. Tagovailoa recouped on time to play for the Dolphins as a newbie however missed five video games during his initial pair of times as a result of several minor accidents. In 2022, he was actually identified along with 2 traumas as well as took a 3rd hit to his head that eventually resulted in the NFL modifying its own concussion procedure. He really did not overlook an activity during the course of the 2023 period, having said that, and also earned a four-year, $212.1 million arrangement extension in July. What alternatives performed Tagovailoa take into consideration after his 2022 period? Tagovailoa admitted to temporarily looking at retirement life after conversations with his family members. Throughout a job interview along with "The Dan Le Batard Program" final month, he clarified that it was actually largely his mother who inquired him to rethink his playing occupation. Essentially, he made a decision against it as well as invested the 2023 offseason bulking up and training in a jiujitsu breakfall program to find out how to fall without striking his directly the ground. The instruction appeared to aid as he played with all of Miami's video games final season, featuring a playoff reduction to the Kansas Area Chiefs. This offseason, Tagovailoa said to CBS Sports he dropped 14 pounds in an initiative to become a lot more mobile. play0:37 Mike McDaniel: Tua in 'good sens' after concussionMike McDaniel says Tua Tagovailoa was speaking with teammates in the storage locker room and resides in great sens after suffering a concussion. If Tagovailoa intends to go back to the area, what hurdles will he have to crystal clear in concussion process? McDaniel said Tagovailoa will definitely go through comprehensive testing and analysis just before they choose how to move on. The NFL's return-to-participation method is actually a five-step procedure that finishes in a staff's medical doctor concurring with an individual neurological specialist that a player can carefully play once again. The primary step of the protocol is rest as well as recovery "till his signs and symptoms as well as neurologic examination" go back to "baseline standing." The upcoming step is actually sunny aerobic exercise, adhered to by continuing cardio physical exercise as well as introduction of durability instruction. A player can come back to football tasks in the 4th action of the procedure, each one of which are noncontact. The final action is complete authorization, as soon as the physician and also nerve consultant acknowledge the player is ready. What are actually the Dolphins' possibilities at quarterback? Will they authorize an additional player? If Tagovailoa can certainly not play in following full week's video game against the Seahawks, third-year quarterback Skylar Thompson is in product line to start. Thompson began 3 games as a newbie in 2022, consisting of a playoff reduction when driving at Buffalo grass. The only other quarterback on the Dolphins' lineup is actually Tim Boyle, who is actually signed to their technique squad. There are freelance alternatives accessible need to Miami decide to introduce yet another quarterback, notably the crew's first-round choice in 2012, Ryan Tannehill. McDaniel performed not devote to the possibility of participating in without Tagovailoa yet expressed the "utmost confidence" in Thompson. It is actually not likely Miami would quickly generate an additional quarterback to start over Thompson, but it might include intensity if Tagovailoa is compelled to skip time.