The NFL and the NFL Players Association will look into the care Jalen Hurts received together. In a joint statement on Sunday, October 25, the league and the union said they are “working together to review the matter,” five days after the union accused the league of having no plans to examine how the Philadelphia Eagles handled their quarterback’s blood clot.
The statement turns a public dispute into a formal process. It does not yet mean findings are close: the two sides have only begun talking about how the review will run, and the investigation itself had not formally started when the statement came out.
And this just in from the NFL and NFLPA in a joint statement on the Jalen Hurts situation:
“The NFL and NFL Players Association are working together to review the matter." https://t.co/f9Lnoz3BV9
— Mike Garafolo (@MikeGarafolo) October 25, 2026
How the review works
The collective bargaining agreement gives a player, a club, the league or the union the right to open an inquiry into a player’s medical care through the joint Accountability and Care Committee. At least two independent doctors or specialists are selected to investigate and report back to that committee.
The timetable is long. Mark Maske reported that the agreement allows up to 60 days to pick the experts and up to 60 more for them to deliver a written report, so the process could take as long as four months. Mike Garafolo described it as a big undertaking whose logistics the two sides are still working out. Neither side has said who the experts will be, how wide the review will go or whether its conclusions will be made public.
The NFL and NFLPA have launched discussions in their joint review process under the CBA of the Jalen Hurts medical case. It could take up to four months, the CBA says (up to 60 days to choose experts, another 60 days for them to issue a report). In @FOS. https://t.co/4SQlMURiTI
— Mark Maske (@MarkMaske) October 25, 2026
A week of shifting positions
The league’s tone has shifted in a week. On Tuesday, October 20, the first day of the owners’ fall meeting in New York, chief medical officer Allen Sills and health and safety chief Jeff Miller defended the Eagles’ doctors and dismissed much of the outside criticism as poorly informed. That night the union said it knew of no league review and that the NFL had told it there would not be one, and it demanded a full investigation.
A day later Roger Goodell said the league would welcome a review, while still praising its own protocols in the case, as he closed the fall meeting. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware then sent Goodell five questions about the case and about whether the league has a blood clot protocol. Jonathan Jones has reported that the NFL does not plan to discipline the Eagles.
The questions at the center
The review is expected to focus on the Eagles’ Week 5 trip to London. Specialists there found a clot in Hurts’ left calf the night before the October 11 game against Jacksonville. He carried no injury designation, started, and Philadelphia lost 19-17. He then flew home, and further tests found a deep vein thrombosis with clots in both lungs. The Eagles put him on injured reserve on October 17, and his season is very likely over, since he cannot play while on blood thinners. The club and his agent have said he should make a full recovery.
The open issues are whether the first clot was found and treated quickly enough, why he was cleared to play and to fly with it, and who made those calls. The league maintains that the Eagles followed proper procedures.
What comes next
The first concrete step will be the choice of the neutral experts. On the field, Tanner McKee starts again for the 2-4 Eagles when the Dallas Cowboys visit Lincoln Financial Field on Monday, October 26, at 8:15 p.m. EDT. Every designation is on the NFL injury report.
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