ByBruce Y. Lee,
Senior Contributor.
Put elbow dislocation on the list of things that you don’t want to see, both figuratively and literally. Figuratively, no one should want any player to suffer such a significant injury like Washington quarterback Jayden Daniels did in the Commanders 38-14 loss to the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday night. But, literally, it was downright nauseating to actually watch Daniels’ left elbow bend so gruesomely when Seahawks linebacker Drake Thomas sacked him with 7 minutes and 39 seconds remaining in the game. The injury was so jarring it left both Commanders and Seahawks kneeling on the field and praying for Daniels.
The injury was in the non-throwing arm of the right-handed Daniels. But as will be explained later, Daniels won’t be right until his left arm is all fixed, healed and ready. An X-ray following the game did show no fractures in Daniels left arm bones. But an X-ray is not gong to offer the detailed look at the elbow joint and the surrounding structures that magnetic resonance imaging will. So, everyone will be left guessing about Daniels’ left elbow until the results of the MRI that Daniels underwent on Monday become available. They will show the true extent of what may be damaged, what treatment may be needed and how many games Daniels may end up missing.
