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Miami Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel introduced on Friday that quarterback Tua Tagovailoa will stay within the NFL’s concussion protocol and miss Sunday’s sport in opposition to the New England Patriots.
McDaniel first introduced on Monday that the participant was within the league’s protocol after struggling a concussion throughout the Inexperienced Bay Packers sport a day earlier. Tagovailoa performed all the sport in opposition to the Packers and the coach couldn’t pinpoint a second the place the 24-year-old may need been injured.
Tagovailoa appears to be exhibiting indicators of enchancment, McDaniel instructed reporters on Friday.
“I might say that he’s higher than the day earlier than, however I’m additionally attempting to get a staff able to play this sport and it actually doesn’t do anyone any service to overtalk on this state of affairs the place he’s received to be centered on his well being and nothing else,” the coach mentioned.
That is the second time this season that the quarterback landed within the concussion protocol, which is the NFL’s insurance policies for assessing and caring for gamers who maintain a concussion.
Veteran quarterback Teddy Bridgewater is anticipated to start out in Tagovailoa’s place on Sunday.
The NFL and the NFL Gamers Affiliation investigated the applying of the league’s concussion protocol round Tagovailoa’s harm and located no violation of that protocol, the NFL and NFLPA mentioned in a joint assertion on Saturday.
“The evaluation established that signs of a concussion have been neither exhibited nor reported till the next day at which era the staff medical personnel appropriately evaluated and positioned Mr. Tagovailoa within the concussion protocol,” the assertion mentioned.
