Washington Commanders star quarterback Jayden Daniels suffered a left elbow injury in his team's 38-14 loss to the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday night, head coach Dan Quinn announced postgame.
Daniels, who had missed three of the season's first eight games with a left knee sprain and a hamstring injury that sidelined him last week, was running toward the end zone when he fell awkwardly on his left, non-throwing arm.
Teammates gathered around Daniels and the game was temporarily stopped as medical personnel placed a device on his left arm to keep it still. Daniels was still in the game even though Washington was trailing by 31 points.
He eventually walked off under his own power, and the "Sunday Night Football" broadcast said he was undergoing X-rays.
Quinn would not say one way or another whether he would have done things differently in having his star in the game with the team trailing by that many points.
"Hindsight, you don't want to think that way that an injury could take place," he said postgame. "We were more conservative in that spot to run and hand off and not have reads to go. But the end result, obviously I'm bummed."
Washington eventually lost to fall to 3-6. But losing Daniels for any significant stretch of time would be the team's most damaging loss of the season by far. The No. 2 pick in the 2024 draft, Daniels was last season's offensive rookie of the year while leading Washington to its first conference title-game appearance since 1992.
After Daniels was injured, Washington turned to backup quarterback Marcus Mariota, a 32-year-old now in his 11th season. The Commanders were 1-2 during Mariota's starts when Daniels was hurt previous this season.
