{"id":940723,"date":"2026-10-25T19:29:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T19:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/940723\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T19:29:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T19:29:17","slug":"nfl-players-union-working-together-to-review-handling-of-jalen-hurts-blood-clot-diagnosis-latest-nfl-news-analysis-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/940723\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL, players&#8217; union working together to review handling of Jalen Hurts&#8217; blood clot diagnosis | Latest NFL News, Analysis &#038; Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier in the week, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell <a class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/commissioner-roger-goodell-nfl-welcomes-review-eagles-jalen-hurts-blood-clots\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-headlessui-state=\"\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> the league welcomed an investigation after Dr. Allen Sills, the league\u2019s chief medical officer, <a class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/nfl-supports-eagles-treatment-of-qb-jalen-hurts-medical-situation\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-headlessui-state=\"\" target=\"_blank\">gave a passionate defense<\/a> of the team\u2019s medical staff.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles previously said Hurts was injured when he took a cleat to his calf area on Oct. 4 in a game against the Los Angeles Rams.<\/p>\n<p>Hurts informed the medical staff of the injury after practice on Oct. 8. The Super Bowl LXIX MVP was back at practice the next day before the team left for London to play Jacksonville. Hurts was initially diagnosed by specialists in London with a left calf superficial vein thrombosis but played against Jacksonville on Oct. 11.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, there was a medical evaluation, and I think our protocols were incredibly good there,\u201d Goodell said Wednesday. \u201cThe protocols were followed. Our process is to make sure that\u2019s the case, and our chief medical officer has gone through that, so we\u2019re comfortable that what we\u2019ve seen in the protocols have happened.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier in the week, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said the league welcomed an investigation after Dr. Allen Sills,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-940723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}