The Miami Dolphins and Ryan Tannehill will sit tight for facilitate therapeutic assessments, yet ESPN's Adam Schefter announced late Thursday that the group fears its beginning quarterback will require season-finishing surgery to his left side knee in the wake of anguish a non-contact damage by and by Thursday morning.
"He's done, I think," a source told Schefter, who included that Tannehill and the group could choose to rest the knee for six to two months and expectation it mends without anyone else. Be that as it may, the Dolphins "are developing progressively worried that surgery will be the most practical and likely alternative," the ESPN columnist says.
Tannehill did not have surgery on a similar knee when he ran down in December with an in part torn ACL, rather picking an undeveloped cell treatment, and a source revealed to Schefter that his knee was "a ticking time bomb that would go off whenever" on account of that choice.
Tannehill got the consequences of a MRI to his left side knee after he limped off the field amid a preparation camp practice Thursday morning. And keeping in mind that he didn't catch any full tears, he did purportedly endure a "difficulty."
ESPN's Jeff Darlington had more:
And keeping in mind that the group keeps on anticipating more test comes about on the quarterback's knee — one in which he at first sprained the ACL and MCL last December, however did not require surgery — group authorities still acknowledge it may be the best long haul answer for have Tannehill experience a strategy that would completely repair the in part torn tendons. Such a situation most likely would end his season, and group sources say that situation stays on the table.
Until further notice, Matt Moore will be Miami's new No. 1 quarterback, however both Schefter and Darlington report that Jay Cutler may continue his NFL vocation in Miami as opposed to making a beeline for the Fox Sports broadcasting corner. Cutler played well under Dolphins Coach Adam Gase with the Bears in 2015. In any case, both ESPN journalists say Cutler would just consider the move on the off chance that he was ensured the beginning spot and was given a beginning quarterback's compensation, and that the Dolphins haven't started to consider acquiring anybody new yet.
Colin Kaepernick's name likewise has been bandied about as a protection design by the Dolphins' front office, as per ESPN's Josina Anderson. Be that as it may, Kaepernick won't not be the most famous move in a zone with a sizable Cuban populace, given the discussion that was created when he wore a T-shirt bearing the picture of Fidel Castro and taking part in a forward and backward with a Miami Herald columnist about Castro. Kaepernick has adulated the late Cuban pioneer for putting more in training than in penitentiaries, saying that stood out from U.S. approach. He went ahead to include that, "Endeavoring to push the false story that I was a supporter of the harsh things that he did, it's quite recently not genuine."
Tannehill had mixed to the sideline amid the group's initial 11-on-11 session, at that point fell ungracefully to his left side leg, on which he wears a support from damage he endured in December. He promptly left the field, the Sun-Sentinel's Omar Kelly announced, and was depicted by the Miami Herald's Armando Salguero as strolling "warily" to the locker live with mentors.
