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Miami Dolphins’ Grant DuBose Taken to Hospital With a Head Injury After Terrifying Tackle
Grant Dubose is on the mend.
The Miami Dolphins’ provided an update on the wide receiver after he was rushed to the hospital following a helmet-to-helmet hit during the team’s game against the Houston Texans Dec. 15.
“After sustaining a head injury in yesterday’s game, Grant DuBose remained at a local Houston hospital for evaluation overnight,” the Dolphins said in a Dec. 16 statement, per NBC News. “He has movement in all extremities and initial tests have revealed positive results. He remains under the care of doctors for continued observation.”
Indeed, DuBose, 23, remained behind in Houston following his injury—which occurred during the third quarter when he collided with Texans safety Calen Bullock.
As for when the University of North Carolina alum will be able to return to Florida?
“We’ll be excited to see him when doctors deem it appropriate for him to fly,” Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel said during a Dec. 16 press conference, per NBC News, “I’d also like to commend the collective training staffs—both ours and the Texans’ and the doctors involved for handling a situation as they did. It was imperative for him.”
And while DuBose is recovering well from the traumatic injury, McDaniel emphasized that the player—who was picked up by the Dolphins after being cut by the Green Bay Packers at the beginning of the season—will need his teammates to lean on amid his healing.
“I think the only way you get through something like that is with your teammates,” he continued. “I think we needed each other at that time, and you also have in the back of your mind, knowing Grant and what would make him proud and just the human being that he is, so you’re trying to do right by him and the team and the situation.”
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McDaniel further noted how Dubose’s injury was just the latest example to his fellow players of the dangers of their sport.
“There’s no really right answer, ultimately,” he added. “I said last night, you have to kind of lean on the factors of your responsibilities to a lot of different people.”
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