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The Dolphins are swimming under dangerous waters at 6-7, with their playoff hopes looking as shaky as a fourth-quarter Hail Mary. Every game matters now, and losing even one could mean packing it up early (and that’d be a bummer). So yeah, the stakes were sky-high going into the Texans game… However, stakes did not mean anything when WR Grant DuBose went down.

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But here’s the kicker—Miami was already down a key playmaker against Houston as Jaylen Waddle exited with a serious knee injury. Now, they lost Grant, too. The 23-year-old took a hit in the third quarter against Houston, and it wasn’t pretty.

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Pretty might be a very ironic term here to describe the hits. But you need to imagine it now. The hit left him motionless on the field, and the scene was as unsettling as it gets in football. We are not even exaggerating when we say that every single Phins player kneeled down and prayed to the footballing gods as the youngster received treatments on the sideline.

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ESPN’s Marcel Louis-Jacques broke the news, describing the moment with chilling detail: “DuBose is down after that hit, he doesn’t appear to be moving. Medical trainers attending to him immediately. Doesn’t look good.”

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Yeah, ‘not good’ could be an understatement here because Grant seemed concussed with a fencing posture. And, alas, the fears came true as NFL insider Ian Rapoport announced that DuBose was ruled out for the rest of the game with a head injury.

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The good news? He was in stable condition before they rushed him to the hospital. But that’s how it is in such cases… Doctors will reveal the extent of his injuries in the next few hours after they are done with the evaluation. However, this seems unfair to Grant, especially when you learn that it was yet another illegal hit. That’s two-in-two for the Texans. 

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What’s going on with Houston lately? I mean, Houston, is there a problem…? Seems like they are targeting players; forget tackling them. Last week, linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair served up a three-game suspension for an illegal hit on Trevor Lawrence. This week, safety Calen Bullock decided to join the highlight reel for all the wrong reasons.

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Miami’s Grant DuBose found himself on the receiving end of a head-to-head collision that left fans in stunned silence. The hit? Brutal. The aftermath? Even worse. He is ruled out and is now in the hospital. But let’s give you a little rewind of what happened before he was carted off.

The 23-year-old’s jersey was cut off, helmet and shoulder pads removed, and they had to cart him off with an oxygen mask and neck brace. I mean, it is not exactly a déjà vu to Lawrence’s injury… But you get what’s happening.

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And now, here’s the kicker—Bullock only got slapped with a 15-yard penalty for unnecessary roughness. No ejection. No dramatic walk of shame. Replay shows Bullock’s head dipped into DuBose’s on a fast-moving play. So, that might explain why it wasn’t flagged as intentional.

But intentional or not, DuBose was left motionless, displaying the ominous “fencing posture” that signals a serious head injury. It’s a sight no football fan wants to see, and honestly, it makes you wonder: where’s the line between tough football and reckless play?

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Syed Talib Haider is the NFL Editor at EssentiallySports with over five years of experience as a sports beat reporter. He began his journey at the outlet covering the NFL, steadily building a strong readership for his in-depth reporting on major events, most notably as a senior writer during Super Bowl LIX, where his coverage helped capture the immediacy and drama of the game. His work during that season led to his promotion to the editorial desk, where he now oversees NFL coverage and guides the outlet’s strategy.

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