.Marcel Louis-Jacques, ESPNSep thirteen, 2024, 02:00 AM ETCloseMarcel Louis-Jacques signed up with ESPN in 2019 as an exhausted media reporter covering the Buffalo Expenses, prior to switching to the Miami Dolphins in 2021. The previous Carolina Panthers beat article writer for the Charlotte Observer succeeded the APSE honor for breaking updates and also the South Carolina Press Organization honor for enterprise writing in 2018. MIAMI-- Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa endured the 3rd identified concussion of his NFL occupation on Thursday night in a 31-10 loss to the Buffalo grass Expenses. Tagovailoa was ruled out of the activity in the third one-fourth after a play through which he scrambled up the middle for an initially down and also lowered his shoulder to launch contact with Bills safety and security Damar Hamlin. After Tagovailoa's helmet created hard exposure to Hamlin's physical body, the quarterback right away entered a securing response, a term made use of to explain a person's upper arms entering into an abnormal posture. Dolphins medical trainers addressed him for many mins as players knelt around him. He was actually eventually capable to stroll off the industry and also into the team's locker space under his personal power. YearGamesInjury20225Concussions20214Broken ribs/finger20201Thumb20194Ankle/dislocated hip)) Participated in every video game final seasonThe Dolphins possess 10 days till their following activity versus the Seattle Seahawks however could possibly dismiss Tagovailoa, irrespective of how he progresses by means of the game's trauma protocol. An assignment on the wounded reserve could be one more probability considering his personal injury history." Immediately, [it] is even more concerning receiving a proper procedural analysis as well as taking it 1 day each time," Dolphins train Mike McDaniel pointed out after the game. "The farthest thing coming from my thoughts is what is actually the timetable. Our team only need to have to evaluate as well as simply think about my teammate. ... Our company'll obtain more relevant information [Friday] and after that take it day by day coming from there." Here are 4 essential concerns observing Tagovailoa's most current blast. What is Tagovailoa's trauma history? Tagovailoa was a prospect to be selected as the best quarterback in the 2020 NFL draught during his last time at Alabama but experienced a hip disconnection and fracture of the rear end wall structure of his hip outlet midway with the season. He was actually likewise diagnosed with a trauma and damaged nose that year. Tagovailoa bounced back over time to play for the Dolphins as a newbie yet overlooked five games throughout his initial pair of seasons because of different minor accidents. In 2022, he was actually identified with 2 blasts and took a 3rd favorite to his head that inevitably resulted in the NFL altering its own blast protocol. He failed to miss a game during the course of the 2023 time, nevertheless, and also made a four-year, $212.1 thousand arrangement expansion in July. What choices carried out Tagovailoa take into consideration after his 2022 time? Tagovailoa acknowledged to quickly considering retirement after conversations along with his family members. In the course of an interview with "The Dan Le Batard Show" last month, he cleared up that it was actually mainly his mommy that asked him to reconsider his participating in job. Inevitably, he decided against it and also devoted the 2023 offseason expanding and training in a jiujitsu breakfall program to find out just how to drop without hitting his head on the ground. The instruction seemed to be to help as he played in each of Miami's games final season, featuring a playoff loss to the Kansas Urban Area Chiefs. This offseason, Tagovailoa said to CBS Sports he lost 14 pounds in an effort to be extra mobile. play0:37 Mike McDaniel: Tua in 'great feelings' after concussionMike McDaniel says Tua Tagovailoa was actually speaking to teammates in the locker area and is in excellent sens after suffering a trauma. If Tagovailoa wants to go back to the area, what hurdles will he have to very clear in blast process? McDaniel mentioned Tagovailoa will certainly undertake detailed screening and evaluation just before they determine how to continue. The NFL's return-to-participation protocol is a five-step process that winds up in a staff's physician accepting an independent nerve expert that a gamer may safely participate in again. The 1st step of the method is actually rest and also rehabilitation "until his signs and symptoms and also neurologic evaluation" come back to "baseline condition." The next action is light cardio exercise, observed through continued cardiovascular exercise as well as overview of strength training. A gamer may go back to football activities in the 4th step of the protocol, every one of which are actually noncontact. The final step is complete authorization, once the doctor as well as neurological specialist concur the player is ready. What are actually the Dolphins' choices at quarterback? Will they authorize yet another gamer? If Tagovailoa may not play in following week's video game against the Seahawks, third-year quarterback Skylar Thompson remains in line to begin. Thompson began 3 activities as a novice in 2022, including a playoff reduction while driving at Buffalo. The only various other quarterback on the Dolphins' roster is Tim Boyle, who is authorized to their strategy squad. There are actually freelance options offered must Miami make a decision to generate an additional quarterback, significantly the crew's first-round selection in 2012, Ryan Tannehill. McDaniel carried out certainly not commit to the option of participating in without Tagovailoa but expressed the "utmost confidence" in Thompson. It's not likely Miami would quickly generate yet another quarterback to start over Thompson, but it might include intensity if Tagovailoa is actually required to skip opportunity.