{"id":71542,"date":"2019-08-26T19:48:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T23:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/?p=71542"},"modified":"2021-03-13T14:12:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T19:12:01","slug":"david-andrews-hospitalized-blood-clots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2019\/08\/26\/david-andrews-hospitalized-blood-clots\/","title":{"rendered":"David Andrews Hospitalized With Blood Clots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/patriots\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New England Patriots<\/a> center <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/A\/AndrDa00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Andrews<\/a><\/strong> has missed practice the past two days, and now we know why. <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/1164099\/2019\/08\/26\/patriots-center-david-andrews-hospitalized-with-blood-clots-season-in-jeopardy\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">According to<\/a> <strong>Jeff Howe<\/strong> of <em>The Athletic<\/em>, Andrews has been hospitalized with blood clots. Howe adds that, depending on the severity of the clots, Andrews\u2019 season could be in jeopardy.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Howe: David Andrews Hospitalized With Blood Clots<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>As of this posting, nobody knows the exact severity of Andrews\u2019 blood clots or the long-term health ramifications of his current state. However, blood clots are never good and Howe has confirmed that Andrews has been hospitalized. Earlier today, offensive line coach <strong>Dante Scarnecchia<\/strong> said \u201cwe\u2019ll find out\u201d when asked if Andrews would be ok following his extended absence from practices.<\/p>\n<p>David Andrews initially joined the NFL as an undrafted free agent in 2015. Signing with the Patriots, Andrews earned the Week One starting job as a rookie after <strong>Brian Stork<\/strong> suffered a concussion. Andrews started the first seven games of the season before conceding the starting job to Stork in the second half of the season. However, thanks to injuries, Andrews ended up appearing in 14 games and making 11 starts as a rookie.<\/p>\n<p>Andrews won the full-time starting job in 2016 and hasn\u2019t looked back. Andrews started all 16 games in 2016, and his solid play helped New England record a 14-2 record and a Super Bowl championship. The Georgia product took his play to another level in 2017, starting all 16 games while playing like one of the best centers in the league. He repeated that effort in 2018, forming arguably the best interior offensive line in football alongside <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/M\/MasoSh01.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shaq Mason<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/T\/ThunJo00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Thuney<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If Andrews misses an extended period of time, New England will likely thrust <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=KarrTe00,KarrTe20,KarrTe21&amp;search=Ted+Karras&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ted Karras<\/a><\/strong> into the starting rotation. Karras was a sixth-round pick in 2016 and has appeared in 45 games through his young career while recording five starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New England Patriots center David Andrews has been hospitalized with blood clots, according to Jeff Howe of The Athletic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":71545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,36],"tags":[6096,3379,3875,7394,3884],"class_list":["post-71542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patriots","category-nfl-news","tag-dante-scarnecchia","tag-david-andrews","tag-joe-thuney","tag-new-england-patriots-news","tag-shaq-mason"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}