{"id":310774,"date":"2026-10-20T20:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T20:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310774\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T20:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T20:12:08","slug":"philadelphia-eagles-will-not-be-disciplined-for-how-they-handled-quarterback-jalen-hurts-blood-clots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310774\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Eagles will not be disciplined for how they handled quarterback Jalen Hurts\u2019 blood clots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The Philadelphia Eagles are not being disciplined for how they handled quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/jalen-hurts-blood-clots-eagles-d92af6b7ce495640139dd66a39f1ee86\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jalen Hurts\u2019 blood clots<\/a>, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Tuesday because conversations between the league and team were private.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In a statement released Tuesday, the NFL said officials had been in contact with Eagles medical personnel and the Cleveland Clinic in London throughout the process of Hurts being treated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThe league\u2019s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Allen Sills, arranges for medical resources with leading providers in every international market with approval from the NFL Players Association,\u201d the league said. \u201cMedical care for players is provided by club medical staff in coordination with independent doctors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sills and other officials are expected to address reporters at the league\u2019s annual fall meeting later Tuesday in New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Hurts is on injured reserve and expected to miss the rest of the season after a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/eagles-jalen-hurts-blood-clot-b0b2348505060fa1ee3c8b322232a7d2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blood clot in his left calf<\/a> traveled to his lungs. The Eagles and agent Nicole Lynn on Monday said Hurts has <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/jalen-hurts-blood-clots-diagnosis-athletes-explainer-4df65e45d6862a0f47d54fa1e92dd5b8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">deep vein thrombosis<\/a> and bilateral pulmonary emboli.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">His treatment involves blood thinners, and Hurts will not be allowed to participate in any football activities until he is off them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Hurts played in London against Jacksonville on Oct. 11, three days after informing medical staff of the injury after practice. He was initially diagnosed by specialists in London with a left calf superficial vein thrombosis.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The Philadelphia Eagles are not being disciplined for how they handled quarterback Jalen Hurts\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[127126,127125,4064,6108,69,4538,71,70,4708,127127],"class_list":["post-310774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-blood-clots","tag-bloodclots","tag-eagles","tag-jalen-hurts","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-quarterback","tag-what-happened-to-jalen-hurts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}