The NFL is reportedly not going to take any action against the Eagles for how they handled Jalen Hurts’s blood clot before he played in Week 5. An unnamed source spilled the beans to Jonathan Jones of The Athletic, saying the league has already concluded the whole situation “was handled appropriately” by the team. Don’t go looking for an official statement though, because the league hasn’t dropped one and isn’t making anyone available to reporters on this one.
No Action? No Surprise, Apparently
Honestly, the “no action” part isn’t exactly shocking, right? The Eagles have been saying, and the NFL has backed them up, that they “remained in communication” with the league through the entire process. Turns out, that’s your golden ticket to avoiding a league penalty. When you bring the league into all your decisions, it seems they’re less likely to come down on you later. This whole thing kicked off when Dr. Allen Sills, the NFL’s chief medical officer, actually hooked up with the Premier League’s chief medical officer to get Hurts evaluated. That happened at the Cleveland Clinic over in London on the evening of Saturday, October 10. The very next day, the unnamed source told Jones, the team, the staff, the doctors, and even Hurts himself decided he was good to go play against the Jaguars at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Wild.
The “Details” That Still Raise Alarms
Now, remember all those reports swirling around that Hurts was told *not* to sleep? Jones is reiterating the claim that Hurts actually “returned to the team hotel around 2:45 a.m. local time Sunday and slept until about 10 a.m.” and then even “took a nap” at the stadium before the game. The unnamed source is also pushing the NFL’s line from last week that the Eagles didn’t break any injury reporting rules. They apparently didn’t need to downgrade Hurts to “questionable” or reveal that his “calf” injury was, in fact, a blood clot. But let’s be real, this whole scenario screams about a bigger issue. It really makes you question if player healthcare in the league is more about just “checking the boxes” so a guy can get back on the field, instead of actually treating them like a normal patient with a serious medical problem. There are still so many missing pieces, and the “insider” reports have been all over the map, from confusing to just plain bizarre. Beyond the player health stuff, this also raises eyebrows about whether the league and teams are creating even more “inside information” that could be misused for betting, while the rest of us, who are constantly bombarded with gambling ads, are left totally in the dark about a player’s true health status. It’s a mess, and the NFL Players Association has been radio silent on it all.
This Jalen Hurts case has thrown up some really serious questions, you know? But if history tells us anything, these kinds of stories just tend to fade away as more games get played and the media moves onto the next big thing. We’re probably never gonna get all the answers we deserve on this one.
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Originally reported by Yahoo Sports.
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