{"id":55979,"date":"2025-10-20T17:00:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T21:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/daniels-minor-thigh-injury-but-armstrong-out-with-acl\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T17:00:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T21:00:56","slug":"daniels-minor-thigh-injury-but-armstrong-out-with-acl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nfl\/daniels-minor-thigh-injury-but-armstrong-out-with-acl\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniels: Minor thigh injury, but Armstrong out with ACL"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Jayden Daniels Avoids Serious Injury, But Armstrong Suffers Season-Ending Injury<\/h2>\n\nWashington Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels suffered no long-term damage to his right hamstring, an MRI revealed, coach Dan Quinn reported on Monday.\n\nHowever, Daniels&#8217; availability for the October 27 game against the Kansas City Chiefs remains uncertain.\n\n&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t significant,&#8221; Quinn said of Daniels&#8217; injury.\n\nThe Commanders did not receive good news regarding defensive end Dorance Armstrong, who suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in his right knee, which will keep him out for the rest of the season, after Sunday&#8217;s 44-22 loss to the Dallas Cowboys.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1020%2Fr1563157_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Jayden Daniels\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nArmstrong, who came to the game battling a hamstring injury, injured his knee in the first series and leads Washington with 5.5 sacks.\n\nWashington&#8217;s defense has been struggling and currently ranks 21st in scoring and 27th in yards allowed.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a tough one for us,\u201d Quinn said. \u201cI\u2019m disappointed for him; he was starting to make his mark.\u201d\n<\/p>\n\n<cite>Dan Quinn<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nDaniels injured his right hamstring with 11 minutes and 53 seconds remaining in the third quarter when linebacker Shemar James made a tackle on him, which caused Daniels to stop throwing a short pass. Daniels tried to bring the ball down, but James pushed it for a fumble.\n\nIf he can&#8217;t play against the Chiefs, Marcus Mariota would replace him as the starter.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jayden Daniels Avoids Serious Injury, But Armstrong Suffers Season-Ending Injury Washington Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels suffered no long-term damage to his right hamstring, an MRI revealed, coach Dan Quinn reported on Monday. However, Daniels&#8217; availability for the October 27 game against the Kansas City Chiefs remains uncertain. &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t significant,&#8221; Quinn said of Daniels&#8217; injury. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[1412,9990,290,3452],"class_list":{"0":"post-55979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-commanders","9":"tag-dorance-armstrong","10":"tag-injury","11":"tag-jayden-daniels"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}