{"id":137415,"date":"2025-08-11T16:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T16:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/137415\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T16:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T16:50:12","slug":"sources-dolphins-mattison-has-season-ending-neck-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/137415\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources &#8211; Dolphins&#8217; Mattison has season-ending neck surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 11, 2025, 12:12 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"af33088b-1e19-d27d-dbc0-354fd7151703\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/mia\/miami-dolphins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Dolphins<\/a> running back <a data-player-guid=\"d4ac78d5-9b9b-4a65-c118-5b2ea8bac6b7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4048244\/alexander-mattison\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Mattison<\/a> underwent season-ending neck surgery Sunday in Chicago, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Mattison suffered the injury after he was tackled on a 21-yard pass play in Sunday&#8217;s preseason game against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"19d73366-b5a5-cca2-a176-a2c024ce0bb3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/chi\/chicago-bears\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Bears<\/a> and was taken by ambulance to a local hospital, where the surgery took place, the sources told Schefter.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Dolphins running back Alexander Mattison will miss the 2025 season after suffering a neck injury Sunday that required surgery.\u00a0Justin Casterline\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>He is expected to make a full recovery, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Jeremy Fowler.<\/p>\n<p>The Dolphins signed Mattison to a one-year contract this offseason, and he was third on the team&#8217;s depth chart behind <a data-player-guid=\"ce7195db-c46d-3963-a973-2fadf206a70b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4429160\/devon-achane\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">De&#8217;Von Achane<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"3d605ae2-3f59-3250-8fe2-b2df5d9d64c4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4682745\/jaylen-wright\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaylen Wright<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/45922509\/2025-nfl-preseason-week-1-takeaways-top-rookies-new-players\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/r1530168_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Veteran running back <a data-player-guid=\"8b3a8527-a88d-e3e5-3edb-0275e5ab8030\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/2980453\/jamaal-williams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jamaal Williams<\/a> is in Miami for a tryout Monday, Schefter is reporting.<\/p>\n<p>Mattison, 27, appeared in 14 games and made seven starts for the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"b18540eb-6f2b-534c-e7f9-9bd930518da9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/lv\/las-vegas-raiders\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Las Vegas Raiders<\/a> in 2024. He spent his first five seasons with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"3db556c9-ed76-a7a5-4ccb-a92fc6db4334\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/min\/minnesota-vikings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Vikings<\/a> and has rushed for 2,790 yards and 15 touchdowns in his career. He also has caught 136 passes for 1,012 yards with seven touchdown receptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 11, 2025, 12:12 PM ET Miami Dolphins running back Alexander Mattison underwent season-ending neck surgery Sunday in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":137416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-137415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115011166310797781","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}