New Details Emerge About Jayden Daniels Elbow Injury

Bonisiwe Shabane

-Nov 17, 2025, 3:01 PM

new details emerge about jayden daniels elbow injury

Washington Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels suffered a gruesome elbow injury during his team’s Week 9 game against the Seattle Seahawks, but he has since received some positive news. Daniels dislocated his elbow late in the Commanders’ 38-14 loss to the Seattle Seahawks last week. He was diagnosed with a dislocated left elbow and is expected to miss several games. However, tests have revealed that there are no fractures or ligament damage, so Daniels does not need to undergo surgery. On Friday, Tashan Reed of the Washington Post reported that Daniels will not be placed on injured reserve. The plan is for Daniels to sit out the next two games and be reevaluated after the Commanders’ have their bye in Week 12.

#Commanders QB Jayden Daniels only has a dislocated elbow; there's no fractures or ligament damage and he won't need surgery, per source. The team won't place him on injured reserve and will re-evaluate him after the Week 12 bye. Reed noted that the injury could be similar to the one that Los Angeles Chargers pass-rusher Khalil Mack suffered earlier this season. Mack was injured on Sept. 16 and returned on Oct. 19.

The Washington Commanders have received positive news regarding Jayden Daniels' elbow injury. The second-year quarterback has no ligament damage on his dislocated left elbow and won't require surgery, an MRI revealed, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported Friday, per sources informed of the situation. Rapoport adds that the Commanders won't immediately place Daniels on injured reserve and the QB will be re-evaluated during the club's bye in Week 12. Daniels sought multiple opinions and the result was as positive as it could be, per Rapoport. While multiple factors are at play and Daniels remains out indefinitely, a return this season remains a possibility. The elbow is the latest injury for Daniels in a season beset by health issues.

He previously missed time with a knee sprain (two games) and a hamstring injury (one game). Just about everything that could have gone wrong for the Washington Commanders has this season, with star quarterback Jayden Daniels‘ injury serving as the latest example. Head coach Dan Quinn put the blame on himself for leaving Daniels in late into the second half during a blowout home loss to the Seattle Seahawks that dropped Washington to 3-6 on the... The QB dislocated his elbow and left the field of play with it immobilized in a scene that served as a microcosm of the Commanders’ 2025 campaign after earning a trip to the NFC... But Daniels and company got some reasonably good news in the aftermath that the injury may not end his year. “Jayden Daniels’ elbow dislocation injury was grotesque, but because it is not his throwing elbow, there will not be a Tommy John UCL surgery,” sports doctor David J.

Chao posted to X on November 2. “The injury is not career-threatening, and depending on the associated injuries, there is a slim chance it may not be season-ending.” GettyQuarterback Jayden Daniels of the Washington Commanders The Washington Commanders were getting blown out in prime time Sunday, and then it got much, much worse. Quarterback Jayden Daniels, who was still in the game and running the ball in the fourth quarter despite the Commanders trailing the Seattle Seahawks by 31 points, was spun around on a tackle and... The result of the play was a dislocated elbow.

Head coach Dan Quinn confirmed the injury to reporters in his Monday news conference. Per Quinn, Daniels did not sustain a fracture. He remains without a timeline to return, and Quinn did not clarify if Daniels will require surgery. It's not clear if Daniels will return this season. "It'll knock him our for a while," Quinn said of the injury. Teammates surrounded Daniels on the field Sunday night as he got looked at by the athletic training staff.

Daniels had a temporary cast put on his left arm, he walked to the sideline and to the locker room. Monday began with a glimmer of hope when NFL Network reported Daniels’ injury is “not as bad as it could have been,” and he’ll “miss several games.” Jayden Daniels was injured in the fourth quarter while the Commanders were down 38-7. Greg Fiume / Getty Images LANDOVER, Md. — It was, simply, malpractice, for Jayden Daniels to be playing in the fourth quarter Sunday night.

I do not use that word to go viral, or as a hot take. I don’t do hot takes. That word is used here because it describes, correctly, the decision to allow Daniels to stay on the field, in a game long since lost, in a season spiraling toward oblivion, and to continue... With time running down in the fourth quarter and Washington down 38-7, Daniels, for some reason, was allowed to go back on the field. He drove the Commanders down the field, toward a meaningless score that would do nothing to change how thoroughly and completely Seattle had dominated the Commanders all night long, in all three phases. And then, Jayden Daniels, because it’s how he’s wired, took off running again, this time from the Seattle 2-yard line with seven and a half minutes left in the game, trying to score.

And Seahawks linebacker Drake Thomas, because it’s what he does for a living, grabbed Daniels and threw him to the ground. And Daniels, straining for that extra yard, fell awkwardly, on his left elbow. It was … it was awful. Don’t look at a replay of it. Ever. Quarterback Jayden Daniels suffered a gruesome injury in Sunday night's Commanders loss to the Seahawks.

With his team down 38–7 late in the fourth quarter, the second-year signal caller pulled the ball on a read option and tried to get away from a Seattle defender before landing awkwardly on... Daniels was taken to the locker room with trainers, his arm immobilized, and did not return. After the game, Washington coach Dan Quinn told reporters that Daniels suffered a left elbow injury, and that despite being down 31 points with just over seven minutes to go, did not consider taking... According to The Athletic's Nicki Jhabvala, Daniels suffered a dislocated left elbow, and X-rays came back negative on Monday morning. NFL Network's Ian Rapoport added that the QB is not set for an MRI to determine how long he will be out, but "the belief is it's not as bad as it could've been."... Given their now-3–6 record, Washington is likely to lean on backup quarterback Marcus Mariota in Daniels's absence, rather than going to the free agent or trade market.

Mariota has started three games for the Commanders already this season while Daniels dealt with other ailments, going 1–2 in said starts while throwing four touchdowns, four interceptions, and scoring a rushing touchdown across... The Commanders will take on the Lions next Sunday, Nov. 9 for a 4:25 p.m. ET kickoff. LANDOVER, Md. -- Postgame locker rooms say a lot about a team.

Victorious ones, especially after a big game, are jubilant, with grown men pouring water on heroes and jumping up and down with childlike joy. Enough to put a smile on anyone's face. Defeated locker rooms feel solemn, with the vibrancy of the room replaced by tension and frustration. And then there are locker rooms like the Washington Commanders' as Sunday night spilled into Monday morning. It was, in large swaths, empty. Several players had already left by the time media members were allowed to enter.

Other players filed in late. Some departed and returned. The cause for all the comings and goings? Jayden Daniels, who was not far away in the bowels of Northwest Stadium after suffering a gruesome elbow injury late in the game. As if a disastrous 38-14 loss to the Seahawks wasn't enough, the face of the franchise and the leader of a football resurgence in the nation's capital was hurt, the cruelest twist of the... "It just f---ing hurt, like honestly, it hurt, like you can feel that right now," said Josh Johnson, the veteran backup quarterback speaking slightly louder than a whisper.

"Everybody's shocked. Everybody's stunned a little bit. "That's the best I got for you," he said, mustering a weary half-laugh. Put elbow dislocation on the list of things that you don’t want to see, both figuratively and literally. Figuratively, no one should want any player to suffer such a significant injury like Washington quarterback Jayden Daniels did in the Commanders 38-14 loss to the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday night. But, literally, it was downright nauseating to actually watch Daniels’ left elbow bend so gruesomely when Seahawks linebacker Drake Thomas sacked him with 7 minutes and 39 seconds remaining in the game.

Daniels’ elbow joint dislocation was so jarring that it left the whole joint—meaning all of Northwest Stadium in Landover, Maryland— quietly watching the medical staff take care of the second-year QB on the field... The injury was in the non-throwing arm of the right-handed Daniels. But as will be explained later, Daniels won’t be right until his left arm is all fixed, healed and ready. An X-ray following the game revealed no fractures in Daniels’ left arm bones. But an X-ray is not gong to offer the detailed look at the elbow joint and the surrounding structures that magnetic resonance imaging will. So, everyone will be left guessing about Daniels’ left elbow until the results of the MRI that Daniels underwent on Monday become available.

They will show the true extent of what may be damaged, what treatment may be needed and how many games Daniels may end up missing. To understand what’s meant by an elbow dislocation, let’s review the anatomy of an elbow. Your elbow joint is the coming together of three bones: the humerus that runs through your upper arm and the radius and ulna that run through your forearm. You can see them in the following diagram of an elbow: Normally, you can bend your elbow to the point that you can kiss your fist—if that’s what you want to do—and extend it to the point that your arm is fairly straight so that... A dislocated elbow is when the radius or ulna gets forced out of place so that it no longer sits in its normal position in the joint with the humerus.

Such an injury is far from humorous and instead can be very painful. With things literally out of joint, you can no longer bend or extend your elbow to the same degree. In fact, you may not even be able to move your elbow.

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