Ryan Fitzpatrick is believed to have suffered a hip subluxation (Twitter link via NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport). The Washington quarterback will know more after a Monday morning MRI, but the training staff is hopeful that nothing was broken. 
Fitzpatrick was forced out in the second quarter against the Chargers on Sunday. Taylor Heinicke took over in his stead, completing 11-for-15 passes for 122 yards and a touchdown. Ultimately, that wasn’t enough for the WFT — the Bolts walked away with a 20-16 win.
Heinicke hasn’t started a regular-season game since the end of 2018, but he’s on track to be first string in Week 2. Of course, he also managed 306 yards and a touchdown against the Bucs in the playoffs. They’ll be facing the Giants, who are coming off of a 27-13 loss to the Broncos.
Fitzpatrick, now 38, led the Dolphins to a 9-11 record in 20 starts between 2019 and 2020. He completed 64.2% of his passes in that span, throwing for 5,620 yards, 33 touchdowns, and 21 interceptions. He also continued to produce on the ground, finishing with 150 rushing yards for the 10th time in the past 13 seasons. Washington is hoping for more FitzMagic, pending tomorrow’s MRI.
Welp.Cam gonna be there in a month.
>>> better make it tomorrow
Makes sense, they’re with Detroit in needing to tank for a QB. No better guy out there than him to get that accomplished.
WTF WFT
>>> Fitzpatrick was never a season long answer
Again draft a QB, every year that has been their Achilles heel
Fitzy should have left the game after the completed pass VS the Raiders with face mask personal foul that won the game after being called in off the bench …..
That was the perfect cap to a 9 team 15 year career.
Not a broken hip.
Lions drafting a QB & WR no matter what with their two first round picks.
Lions are paying Jared Goff a ton of money. I don’t think they’re drafting a QB next year.
The Lions are only into big money for this year and next. The dead cap for 2023 and 2024 are $10M and $5M. Drafting QB next year is exactly what they should do.
Depends. The Lions could wait one more year. Depends on how the season goes/how the draft falls.
I think one of those picks are stapled to those positions but the other could go many different ways. Like rct said, still paying Goff a ton of money. He also was not the issue on the field.
He did play better the second half but with better than $30M cap hits for 2022, 2023 & 2024 on a rebuilding team why tie up that much money? He is the Miguel Cabrera of the Lions.
Driving a QB into the ground is a penalty – yet it wasn’t called.
It’s terrible that Fitz got injured, but it didn’t look to be a tackle worth a penalty to me. The defender basically just ran over him on the play. If that’s a penalty, how do you tackle a guy? There are some big dudes that can’t just be shoved over.
Kyle Shurmur. Etling, Ta’amu, and Dolegala are free and mentally stable.