.Marcel Louis-Jacques, ESPNSep thirteen, 2024, 02:00 AM ETCloseMarcel Louis-Jacques participated in ESPN in 2019 as an exhausted reporter covering the Buffalo grass Expenses, prior to shifting to the Miami Dolphins in 2021. The previous Carolina Panthers beat author for the Charlotte nc Viewer won the APSE award for beating information as well as the South Carolina Media Association honor for organization creating in 2018. MIAMI-- Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa endured the third identified concussion of his NFL profession on Thursday evening in a 31-10 reduction to the Buffalo Expenses. Tagovailoa was dismissed of the video game in the third fourth after a play through which he rushed up the center for a first down as well as reduced his shoulder to trigger contact with Expenses security Damar Hamlin. After Tagovailoa's helmet made hard contact with Hamlin's physical body, the quarterback immediately entered into a securing action, a phrase used to define a person's arms entering a strange setting. Dolphins health care trainers attended to him for numerous mins as players knelt around him. He was ultimately able to stroll off the industry and in to the group's storage locker area under his very own power. YearGamesInjury20225Concussions20214Broken ribs/finger20201Thumb20194Ankle/dislocated hip)) Played every video game last seasonThe Dolphins possess 10 times till their upcoming video game versus the Seat Seahawks yet can rule out Tagovailoa, despite just how he proceeds by means of the league's trauma method. A stint on the wounded reserve might be one more opportunity considering his accident past." At the moment, [it] is actually even more about getting a correct procedural analysis and taking it eventually each time," Dolphins train Mike McDaniel stated after the video game. "The farthest factor coming from my mind is what is the timeline. Our team merely need to evaluate and only fret about my colleague. ... Our company'll acquire more relevant information [Friday] and afterwards take it everyday coming from there." Below are actually four essential questions adhering to Tagovailoa's most current blast. What is Tagovailoa's trauma past? Tagovailoa was a prospect to become selected as the best quarterback in the 2020 NFL draught during the course of his last time at Alabama yet experienced a hip disconnection and crack of the posterior wall structure of his hip socket midway through the season. He was actually likewise detected along with a blast and defective nostrils that year. Tagovailoa recovered over time to bet the Dolphins as a rookie however missed out on 5 activities during the course of his first 2 seasons because of several slight accidents. In 2022, he was actually detected along with pair of traumas as well as took a 3rd hit to his head that ultimately caused the NFL altering its trauma procedure. He failed to skip a video game in the course of the 2023 time, nonetheless, as well as got a four-year, $212.1 million contract extension in July. What options performed Tagovailoa think about after his 2022 time? Tagovailoa accepted to for a while thinking about retirement life after discussions along with his family. In the course of a job interview with "The Dan Le Batard Series" last month, he made clear that it was mostly his mom who asked him to reevaluate his playing career. Eventually, he determined versus it and also spent the 2023 offseason expanding and training in a jiujitsu breakfall plan to learn just how to fall without hitting his head on the ground. The training appeared to assist as he played in every of Miami's video games last period, including a playoff reduction to the Kansas Area Chiefs. This offseason, Tagovailoa told CBS Sports he shed 14 pounds in an initiative to become even more mobile phone. play0:37 Mike McDaniel: Tua in 'excellent feelings' after concussionMike McDaniel points out Tua Tagovailoa was actually speaking with allies in the locker area and also is in really good sens after enduring a trauma. If Tagovailoa wishes to go back to the industry, what obstacles will he need to crystal clear in trauma process? McDaniel stated Tagovailoa is going to go through in depth testing as well as analysis just before they choose just how to move on. The NFL's return-to-participation procedure is actually a five-step procedure that winds up in a staff's medical doctor concurring with a private neurological consultant that a player can carefully participate in once again. The very first step of the method is remainder and recuperation "until his symptoms and signs and also neurologic exam" come back to "baseline status." The next step is actually sunny aerobic physical exercise, adhered to through continuous cardiovascular workout and also intro of toughness training. A gamer can easily come back to soccer activities in the 4th action of the method, each of which are noncontact. The last action is full approval, when the medical doctor as well as neurological consultant concede the gamer is ready. What are actually the Dolphins' options at quarterback? Will they authorize an additional player? If Tagovailoa may not play in upcoming full week's game against the Seahawks, third-year quarterback Skylar Thompson is in product line to begin. Thompson started three games as a rookie in 2022, consisting of a playoff loss on the road at Buffalo grass. The only various other quarterback on the Dolphins' roster is actually Tim Boyle, that is actually signed to their method team. There are free agent options on call must Miami determine to generate yet another quarterback, particularly the staff's first-round selection in 2012, Ryan Tannehill. McDaniel did not commit to the option of participating in without Tagovailoa yet revealed the "utmost peace of mind" in Thompson. It is actually unlikely Miami would instantly produce yet another quarterback to begin again Thompson, yet it might incorporate deepness if Tagovailoa is actually compelled to miss out on opportunity.