The result was a right hip injury as seen after the 4:40 mark in this ESPN video:According to ESPN’s Mark Schlabach, Tagovailoa is done for the season with a right hip dislocation and a posterior wall fracture. This is bad news for the Alabama football team, but more importantly what does it mean for Tagovailoa? Therefore, a posterior acetabular wall fracture means that the back, closer-to-your-butt portion of your socket has a break in it. A column fracture versus a wall fracture extends beyond the wall of your acetabular socket into the rest of the pelvic bone. And hip surgery can be quite major and serious surgery.

Source: Forbes November 17, 2019 02:32 UTC