O’Connell, who was wearing a tightly wrapped splint on his thumb during Sunday’s 20-15 loss to the Los Angeles Rams, will undergo additional tests on Monday.
The quarterback said Sunday that he suffered a similar concussion in high school.
It was during the Raiders’ second-string offense in the past when, on second-and-10, O’Connell attempted a deep pass to the right side and crashed on his follow-through through the Rams defense. Kamren Curl. With no catcher in the neighborhood, O’Connell was flagged for intentional grounding.
One of the next plays, on third-and-21, O’Connell blocks receiver DJ Turner for a 10-yard pickup. They will be the last games in this sport for O’Connell.
“I threw it and didn’t feel very good,” he said. “I tried to hold on but, yeah, it doesn’t feel very good.”
O’Connell, who replaced Gardner Minshew as a starter, completed 6 of 10 passes for 52 yards against the Rams. According to ESPN Analysis, he was usually harassed on 5 of his 10 dropbacks (50%) and was usually 2 of 5 for 19 yards when harassed.
“Super unfortunate,” O’Connell said of the moment of shock. “I was really looking forward to today and this opportunity, so it was definitely hard to cut it short like that.”
Minshew, who was often benched over bias over O’Connell’s termination age, replaced O’Connell. Signed to a two-year sovereign agent word of honor contract with $15 million guaranteed, Minshew had a good training camp fight with O’Connell. He finished a career-high 70.7% of his passes for 1,014 yards and four touchdowns in five starts, but was also intercepted five times in those games.
In his final fight before being benched, Minshew threw a 100-yard pick-six against the Denver Broncos on Round 5, turning a possible 17-3 Raiders run into a 10-10 game. eventual 34-18 defeat. . Minshew had a career-low 40.2 QBR at the time of his benching.
Against the Rams on Sunday, Minshew was responsible for four turnovers (three interceptions and a fumble that was recovered by Curl and returned 33 yards for a touchdown) and was 15 of 34 for 154 yards and a passer score in a single game. of 21.0, the lowest of his career.
Minshew threw 8 interceptions this season and fumbled three times, losing two of them. His 10 surrenders are related to governing the NFL with Tennessee Titans quarterback Will Levis.
“I’ve never turned over a ball like that in my life,” Minshew said. “It’s very frustrating. So I have to keep watching it, keep studying, keep training, [have] good habits and we will find a way out of this.
“A little bit of it is being competitive with the ball. Some of it was just sinister ball placement, like the one for DJ [Turner] today, it is simply overlooked behind him. So, a mix of elements, so we were given to take a look at it, deal with it and move on.”
The only alternate quarterback on parole with the Raiders is undrafted rookie Carter Bradley, who is on the following team and has yet to make his NFL debut. The Raiders also had veteran Nathan Peterman on their training camp roster for two weeks, but he is now on the Atlanta Falcons’ monitoring team.
