NFL reverses course on Jalen Hurts blood clot case after NFLPA pushback

NFL officials publicly defended the medical care Jalen Hurts received in London on Tuesday, and reports that day said the league would not punish the Philadelphia Eagles over how the quarterback was cleared to play. That night, the NFL Players Association countered that the league had told the union it did not plan to review his care at all.

"The NFL and NFL Players Association are working together to review the matter," the league and the union said in a joint statement Sunday morning.

The review centers on the Eagles' Week 5 trip to face the Jacksonville Jaguars. An Oct. 10 ultrasound in London found a superficial clot in Hurts' calf, and the team said its staff and London-based doctors concluded he could safely play. 

A follow-up ultrasound in Philadelphia showed the clot had moved. The diagnosis has since become deep vein thrombosis and bilateral pulmonary emboli, and Hurts is expected to miss the rest of the season.

"The notion that there's external factors that any of our physicians would put a player in harm's way, that's nonsense," NFL chief medical officer Allen Sills said at the owners' meetings.

"We welcome that," Commissioner Roger Goodell said Wednesday when asked about the union's call for an investigation.