NFL and NFLPA discover no violation in dealing with of newest Tua Tagovailoa concussion

The NFL and NFLPA launched a joint assertion on Saturday indicating that following an investigation, no violations had been discovered concerning Tua Tagovailoa’s latest concussion. The Miami Dolphins quarterback suffered a head harm through the Dolphins’ Christmas Day loss to the Green Bay Packers. While Tagovailoa completed the sport. Miami head coach Mike McDaniel knowledgeable the media the following day that Tagovailoa had been positioned within the concussion protocol.

Tagovailoa has already been dominated out for this weekend’s sport in opposition to the New England Patriots.

In the joint assertion, the NFL and NFLPA outlined that the concussion protocol is important when a “player receives an impact to the head and exhibits or reports signs or symptoms suggestive of a concussion.” However, on this case “symptoms of a concussion were neither exhibited nor reported” till Monday:

This will not be the primary investigation right into a concussion suffered by Tagovailoa. In the Dolphins’ win over the Buffalo Bills again in Week 3, Tagovailoa struck his helmet on the turf within the first half and appeared woozy, and it was reported that he suffered a head harm. He remained within the sport — main the Dolphins to a win over the Bills — and after the sport it was acknowledged that he suffered a again harm.

Tagovailoa began the Dolphins’ subsequent sport, simply days later in opposition to the Cincinnati Bengals. He was knocked out of that sport after a sack, and brought to a close-by hospital for analysis. Tagovailoa missed two weeks whereas within the concussion protocol, and the NFLPA requested an investigation into how his harm was dealt with.

Following that investigation, the NFL and the NFLPA discovered that no violations occurred in dealing with Tagovailoa’s state of affairs. However, the concussion protocols had been modified so as to add gross motor instability — which Tagovailoa displayed in opposition to the Bills — to the listing of “no go” signs that might rule a participant out of a sport.