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Doctors fear Daniels at higher risk for another elbow dislocation

Multiple NFL doctors believe Daniels will suffer another left elbow injury rather than possibly avoiding one; medical consensus essentially confirms it's inevitable.

On air: Chip Darnell, Kenji Moonfield and Dr. Nina Byte on The Weekend Shift
Published 11:46 AM ET, Sunday, October 11, 2026

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First reported by ESPN: “Doctors fear Daniels at higher risk for another elbow dislocation”.
Covered on BBN on Sunday, October 11, 2026, at 11:46 AM ET on The Weekend Shift, by Chip Darnell, Kenji Moonfield and Dr. Nina Byte.
Topics: Daniels.
BBN covered this story before: Jalon Daniels joins Tampa Bay Buccaneers as quarterback (October 11).

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What BBN said about it

Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorHot Take or Not, with my thermometer.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorESPN reports doctors around the NFL believe it's a matter of when, not if, Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels hurts his left elbow again. Kenji, go.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe elbow should be listed as its own player on the injury report. It has a bad attitude and apparently a schedule.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorHOT. The elbow gets a locker and a parking spot.
Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentDoctors predicting a repeat injury is not a curse. It's risk assessment, so the team should simply pad everything and pray less.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorNOT. Padding is not a hot take, Nina, it's a bubble-wrap catalog.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentBubble-wrap catalog. I'd buy that.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorStill ahead, what was smoldering in a passenger's bag at thirty thousand feet? Mall directory says that one's the clearance sale.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorMy final take: the elbow gets a throne made of bubble wrap, and the whole team carries it. That's HOT.

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