Tua Tagovailoa's Recovery Process Post-Concussion Explained

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00:00and we'll see you next week.

00:04Doc, we all saw the major concussion that Tua Tagovailoa

00:07did suffer in that primetime game against the Bills.

00:09It's not so much about when he's going to come back, Doc,

00:12but can you tell us, what's the process

00:14that Tua Tagovailoa is going through from the game itself

00:17to today on some of those tests, and also how they determine

00:20when he could possibly be cleared?

00:21Well, to me, there's no doubt

00:24he's gonna see multiple neurologists or neurosurgeons

00:26and get lots of good opinions.

00:28Every concussion, you could argue, is a major concussion.

00:31No two concussions are the same.

00:34You know, certainly he got hit by DeMar Hamlin,

00:36but he also hit the back of his head on the turf,

00:39and you guys are showing the pictures

00:40and images right there.

00:42And this is arguably his fifth concussion in five years,

00:45one in college, two diagnosed,

00:48but you could argue three in 2022, and now this one.

00:53Is this career-threatening?

00:56Absolutely.

00:57Every single concussion can be said to be that,

01:00but with five in five years, it is career-threatening.

01:03Is he gonna come back in one or two weeks?

01:05No, it's gonna need a longer absence.

01:08Is this career-ending?

01:09Not necessarily.

01:11If symptoms linger, it indeed will be career-ending.

01:14If symptoms go away quickly,

01:16then he may have a chance to go back.

01:18Let him determine that.

01:19The posturing, the fencing doesn't really relate

01:22to the seriousness of it,

01:24even though it looks bad to the general public.

01:27And note, he's not the highest number

01:29of concussions in the league.

01:30We focus on Tua because of the controversy in 2022,

01:35and of course, he's a quarterback, premier position,

01:38but Mitch Morris, now with the Jaguar Center,

01:41with the Buffalo Bills before,

01:42has six documented concussions in his NFL career.

01:45Pat Freyermuth has had three

01:47in his first young early career at tight end.

01:50So it remains to be seen,

01:52and it will be an individual decision

01:54along with the doctors.

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