Miami Dolphins move rusher Bradley Chubb has a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his proper knee and can miss the remainder of the season, coach Mike McDaniel stated Monday.
Chubb suffered the harm within the last minutes of Sunday’s 56-19 loss to the Baltimore Ravens. He went down after attempting to make a sort out and grabbed at his proper knee. He was carted off the sector.
McDaniel expressed remorse afterward when requested why Chubb and different Dolphins starters had been within the recreation at that time, when the deficit was 30 factors with 3:05 remaining.
“In hindsight, I might completely not have certainly one of them on the market if I had recognized that he was going to get harm, for certain,” the second-year coach stated Sunday. “That is a recognized a part of the job that I perceive absolutely. It does not look good in any respect.”
Added McDaniel on Monday: “It was a troublesome second that I want would not have occurred. Hindsight is 20/20. Each determination I make, I perceive how necessary it’s to everybody that I am doing the appropriate factor for the staff and the group. When issues like that occur, yeah, the burden is nice. I all the time study from issues, and you may relaxation assured that the right intent can be utilized to each determination I make as a result of I do not take the burden of that calmly in any respect.”
Chubb, acquired in a commerce with Denver final November, leads the Dolphins with 11 sacks and a league-high six pressured fumbles. He has 74 tackles.
The Dolphins will now be with out their two star linebackers coming into Sunday’s recreation towards Buffalo, which can determine the AFC East. Jaelan Phillips suffered a torn Achilles tendon towards the Jets in Week 12.
That is the third ACL tear for Chubb and the primary in his proper knee. Chubb, the fifth total choose within the 2018 draft, suffered a torn left ACL with the Broncos in 2019. He ruptured the identical ACL in highschool.
Reporting by The Related Press.
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