{"id":262540,"date":"2025-10-31T08:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/262540\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T08:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:59:11","slug":"andy-dalton-played-through-a-broken-thumb-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/262540\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Dalton played through a broken thumb Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Dalton started for injured starter Bryce Young on Sunday. The Bills blew out the Panthers 40-9 as Dalton went 16-of-24 for 175 yards and an interception and two lost fumbles.<\/p>\n<p>Dalton is on this week\u2019s practice report with a thumb injury that kept him out on Wednesday and limited him on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>He revealed that he broke his thumb on the second series. His throwing hand hit the raised hand of Bills linebacker Dorian Williams.<\/p>\n<p>Dalton said he has played through several right thumb injuries, including after his car accident last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know I\u2019m <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.panthers.com\/news\/bryce-young-eager-to-get-back-in-andy-dalton-determined-to-push-through-thumb-injury\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">not going to use that<\/a> as an excuse for anything,\u201d Dalton said, via Darin Gantt of the team website. \u201cI\u2019d love for my thumb to not be broken, but you know it is what it is. I knew that I had taken a hit, and then I still felt like I could function normally, so I didn\u2019t think that it was even worth really anything to talk about. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot going to make any excuses like I said earlier, but obviously if it wasn\u2019t broken, obviously it would be a different feel there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Panthers added Mike White to the active roster this week, but Dalton said he can play if needed. Bryce Young (ankle) was a full participant again today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, it\u2019s not ideal, but you know I can still work,\u201d Dalton said. \u201cI can still throw the ball, and so yeah, we just go from there. I think it\u2019s just more mental than anything. You try not to think about it, but I went out there, I threw today, and it felt good.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andy Dalton started for injured starter Bryce Young on Sunday. The Bills blew out the Panthers 40-9 as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-262540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}