A team that thought it had fixed its quarterback issues is back looking for answers. Nick Foles, the free agent acquisition for the Jacksonville Jaguars exited Sunday’s game against the Kansas City Chiefs with a broken left collarbone.
.@Jaguars QB Nick Foles out indefinitely with broken left clavicle. (via @JamesPalmerTV) pic.twitter.com/ZXgZ4eRFET
— NFL (@NFL) September 8, 2019
The Jags have no timetable for his return, but unless it’s some odd type of break, he should be able to return in the second half of the season. The injury is in his non-throwing side, so that’s one bright spot. He will go under the knife Monday to repair the clavicle.
“It was unfortunate,” Jags head coach Doug Marrone said after the loss. “You’d really like to see how the game would’ve worked itself out with Nick.”
Foles went 5-for-7 for 75 yards and a touchdown before he got hurt.
Hill leaves same game with injury
Tyreek Hill left the same game with a shoulder injury of his own and is currently in a local Jacksonville hospital.
“[Hill] had a sternoclavicular joint injury which is where your clavicle comes into your sternum,” Chiefs athletic trainer Rick Burkholder said. “Those can be injured coming out the front, up top or in the back. If it goes posteriorly or back it becomes a medical issue for us so that we worry that there’s more problems. His came back posteriorly and he didn’t have any medical issues but we still transported him to Baptist Medical Center [Jacksonville] and we turned his care over to Brett Frykberg who is an ortho-trauma physician.”
Here is an explanation from the #Chiefs on WR Tyreek Hill, who was taken to a local hospital. pic.twitter.com/gxcl2nqFu0
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) September 8, 2019
Hill had two catches for 16 yards when he went down. He will miss at least a few weeks with the injury.
