.Marcel Louis-Jacques, ESPNSep thirteen, 2024, 02:00 AM ETCloseMarcel Louis-Jacques joined ESPN in 2019 as an exhausted reporter covering the Buffalo grass Expenses, before shifting to the Miami Dolphins in 2021. The former Carolina Panthers hammered article writer for the Charlotte Viewer won the APSE award for beating news and also the South Carolina Press Affiliation honor for enterprise writing in 2018. MIAMI-- Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa experienced the third diagnosed trauma of his NFL profession on Thursday night in a 31-10 reduction to the Buffalo grass Costs. Tagovailoa was actually ruled out of the game in the third one-fourth after a play in which he scurried up the middle for an initially down and decreased his shoulder to initiate exposure to Expenses protection Damar Hamlin. After Tagovailoa's headgear helped make hard exposure to Hamlin's physical body, the quarterback immediately entered into a securing feedback, a term utilized to describe a person's upper arms entering into an unnatural position. Dolphins clinical personal trainers addressed him for a number of moments as gamers stoop around him. He was actually inevitably able to stroll off the field and also in to the staff's storage locker room under his very own power. YearGamesInjury20225Concussions20214Broken ribs/finger20201Thumb20194Ankle/dislocated hip)) Played every activity final seasonThe Dolphins have 10 days until their upcoming activity against the Seat Seahawks but might eliminate Tagovailoa, irrespective of exactly how he advances with the league's concussion method. An assignment on the injured reservoir may be an additional opportunity considering his trauma past history." Right now, [it] is actually a lot more about getting an appropriate step-by-step analysis as well as taking it one day each time," Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel claimed after the video game. "The furthest point from my thoughts is what is the timetable. We just need to have to analyze and also simply worry about my colleague. ... Our company'll receive even more details [Friday] and after that take it daily coming from there." Here are 4 vital concerns complying with Tagovailoa's most recent concussion. What is actually Tagovailoa's accident past? Tagovailoa was actually a prospect to become chosen as the leading quarterback in the 2020 NFL draught during his last period at Alabama however experienced a hip disconnection as well as bone fracture of the posterior wall structure of his hip socket midway through the period. He was also detected along with a concussion and also busted nostrils that year. Tagovailoa recovered over time to play for the Dolphins as a novice but skipped five activities in the course of his 1st two times due to a variety of minor personal injuries. In 2022, he was identified along with two blasts and took a third hit to his scalp that inevitably triggered the NFL changing its own trauma method. He didn't skip a video game during the course of the 2023 period, however, as well as earned a four-year, $212.1 thousand arrangement expansion in July. What possibilities carried out Tagovailoa look at after his 2022 season? Tagovailoa acknowledged to quickly taking into consideration retirement life after conversations with his family members. During the course of a job interview along with "The Dan Le Batard Series" final month, he cleared up that it was mostly his mommy that inquired him to rethink his participating in job. Inevitably, he determined against it as well as invested the 2023 offseason bulking up as well as training in a jiujitsu breakfall system to learn how to drop without striking his directly the ground. The training appeared to aid as he played in all of Miami's games last period, consisting of a playoff reduction to the Kansas Urban Area Chiefs. This offseason, Tagovailoa said to CBS Athletics he shed 14 pounds in an attempt to become extra mobile. play0:37 Mike McDaniel: Tua in 'really good sens' after concussionMike McDaniel points out Tua Tagovailoa was talking to teammates in the locker area and also remains in really good spirits after experiencing a trauma. If Tagovailoa desires to return to the industry, what difficulties will he must very clear in trauma protocol? McDaniel said Tagovailoa is going to go through detailed testing as well as assessment before they decide just how to move on. The NFL's return-to-participation method is actually a five-step process that finishes in a team's physician concurring with a private neurological consultant that a gamer can safely and securely participate in again. The primary step of the protocol is remainder and also rehabilitation "up until his symptoms as well as neurologic assessment" return to "baseline status." The following action is sunny cardio physical exercise, followed through continuous cardiovascular workout as well as intro of durability instruction. A player can easily come back to soccer tasks in the 4th measure of the method, each of which are actually noncontact. The final action is actually total approval, when the doctor as well as nerve expert acknowledge the gamer is ready. What are actually the Dolphins' options at quarterback? Will they sign yet another player? If Tagovailoa may not play in following full week's video game versus the Seahawks, third-year quarterback Skylar Thompson is in series to start. Thompson started three games as a novice in 2022, featuring a playoff reduction when traveling at Buffalo. The only other quarterback on the Dolphins' lineup is actually Tim Boyle, who is actually authorized to their technique team. There are freelance choices available need to Miami decide to generate one more quarterback, notably the staff's first-round pick in 2012, Ryan Tannehill. McDaniel carried out not devote to the probability of playing without Tagovailoa yet shared the "utmost confidence" in Thompson. It's not likely Miami will promptly generate another quarterback to start over Thompson, yet it could possibly add deepness if Tagovailoa is actually required to miss out on opportunity.