Jalen Hurts Out For Season With Blood Clots After Terrifying London Ordeal
Ian Rapoport reported Hurts was in the hospital until 4 am and did not sleep because sleep was a risk.
Jalen Hurts is officially out for the season with blood clots in his lungs, and the details of his final start are genuinely terrifying.
According to Ian Rapoport, the quarterback was in a London hospital until 4 a.m. before their international game. He played that entire game without sleeping because doctors warned him that falling asleep was an actual medical risk.
Playing an NFL game across the Atlantic is already a physical nightmare. Doing it on zero sleep while a blood clot travels through your body is the kind of detail that makes you wonder if the league needs a designated adult in the room to take away players' helmets.
The timeline of this injury is wild. Hurts originally caught a cleat to the calf against the back on October 4, which caused what was initially diagnosed as a superficial blood clot. The Eagles put him on injured reserve over the weekend, but the clot moving to his lungs escalated this from a roster problem to a real-life crisis.
For the , this turns a bad start into a full-blown disaster. is sitting at 2-4 after a brutal 25-14 loss to the , and any futures tickets on this team winning the NFC East are essentially donations to the sportsbook.
You cannot play professional football on blood thinners, which means Hurts is done until 2027. That leaves the offense in the hands of backup Tanner McKee, with Joe recently pulled off the practice squad just to have another arm in the building.
Add in the fact that star running back is already sidelined with a hamstring injury, and the entire offensive identity of this team just evaporated in the span of two weeks.
The host the Cowboys next Monday night in a divisional matchup that suddenly feels like a grim survival test. For Hurts, football is completely secondary right now. He just needs to get healthy, get some actual rest, and stay far away from anyone wearing cleats.