Jalen Hurts' Blood Clot Injury Threatens NFL Season

Biggest injury story in the National Football League, without a doubt, is the one to Jalen Hurts, unfortunately suffering from blood clots. And Dr. Chow, this is sort of scary here because naturally, you know, through the years, we've heard athletes having blood clots. And generally speaking, it becomes more of a protect your life situation. We saw it with Victor Wembanyama last year of the San Antonio Spurs. We've seen it previously from players in the NBA. Chris Bosh also comes to mind, ended his career in the NBA as well. So, Dr. Chow, what do you make of this? And certainly, I know every individual has different levels of this, too, from what I'm reading and different blood clots. And maybe you could sort it out for us here and tell us whether or not you think he'll play again, let's say, this season. Well, look, the whole point of this is to not have the blood clot propagate and become a pulmonary embolism, and that's when it can be fatal. Fortunately, it doesn't happen very often. Fortunately, with a good treatment, he's going to be fine. But the problem is that when you're on blood thinners, you really shouldn't play a collision sport of football. For example, the big fear is if you have a head injury and a brain bleed and it tends to bleed more, that would be catastrophic. So even if there is a 1% or 0.1% chance of that, you never want to take that risk. This is why even though the Eagles did a great job of explaining what it was, it was a superficial blood clot. And once that occurred and they said there was movement, wasn't sure what movement meant. propagation, deep vein, whatever it was, at that point at Sports Injury Central, we were saying that Jalen Hurts was more likely out for the season than going to play in the following week. And now he's on injured reserve, so obviously he's not playing the following week. Now it's a matter of can he come back at all? It's not impossible to come back. It depends on what type of blood clot and what type of blood thinners he needs to be on. But of course, better safe than sorry in all of this and his health comes first and i think that's what the Eagles are doing but at this point it's at least four weeks but you know it starts to be season threatening for sure