Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa will be sidelined indefinitely, his coach says after the player appeared to absorb two head injuries in a five day span.
Tagovailoa hit his head hard on the ground as Bengalswas “conscious and has movement in all his extremities” and was taken to University of Cincinnati Medical Center for evaluation before flying home with the team, the Dolphins said.The position of Tagovailoa's arms and hands after he hitting the ground, a Boston University neurologist and authority on the links between football and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy .
Such a blow and reaction could have been,"under the right circumstances, this can be a catastrophic injury," she added.Tagovailoa was in good spirits on the journey and the QB even pulled out his phone to watch “my cult favorite class movie“He was just happy to be with his teammates,” the coach said. “And all of his teammates were so elated. I mean this was a scary, scary situation for all of us.
The QB was lucid on the field, played well and met regularly with reporters on Sunday and through the week not showing any symptoms of a head injury, his coach said. Tagovailoa should have been automatically considered the victim of brain injury on Sunday, Dr. McKee said.
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