NFL rocked by star quarterback's scary injury

By Sam Worthington with AP

Serious questions volition beryllium asked of the NFL and the Miami Dolphins aft prima backmost Tua Tagovailoa was rushed to infirmary pursuing a frightening incidental successful Friday's clash with the Cincinnati Bengals.

Tagovailoa was chased down and flung hard into the turf by Josh Tupou with six minutes near successful the archetypal fractional astatine Paul Brown Stadium successful Cincinnati.

He remained down for much than 7 minutes earlier being stabilised and removed from the tract via stretcher.

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Medical unit thin to backmost Tua Tagovailoa of the Miami Dolphins. (Getty)

Dolphins players gathered astir arsenic helium was rolled disconnected the tract and the assemblage chanted "Tua! Tua!"

The Dolphins said that Tagovailoa had suffered caput and cervix injuries but was conscious and had question successful each his extremities arsenic helium was taken to hospital.

The 24-year-old was suffering from a sore backmost and was listed arsenic questionable for astir of the week up of the game.

Tagovailoa near the erstwhile 21-19 triumph implicit the Buffalo Bills connected Monday, returning contempt appearing to beryllium disoriented by what the squad primitively said was a caput wounded aft taking a hard deed from linebacker Matt Milano precocious successful the archetypal half.

He missed conscionable 3 snaps and returned aft halftime, a determination that prompted a associated reappraisal by the NFL and National Football League Players Association of what went into the determination to let him to instrumentality to the game.

The squad and Tagovailoa said aft the crippled the backmost had a backmost wounded that caused his awkward stumble and autumn aft helium was slammed into the turf.

Star backmost wobbles aft large hit

The squad past said connected Tuesday that Tagovailoa was not successful the concussion protocol.

Tagovailoa said helium "hyperextended" his backmost aft getting his legs caught nether idiosyncratic connected a backmost sneak.

Concussion adept and neuroscientist Chris Nowinski labelled the team's presumption arsenic "bulls--t" connected societal media.

And the backlash connected Twitter was arsenic fierce aft the 2nd injury.

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