"Mattison, who scored a touchdown earlier in that Aug. 10 preseason game against the Bears, caught a short fourth-quarter pass and rumbled 21 yards before being brought down awkwardly inside the 5-yard line. He suffered a neck injury that required emergency fusion surgery as he stayed back in Chicago while the Dolphins traveled to Detroit for a week of practice with the Lions and another preseason game the following weekend."
""It's been quite the rollercoaster, but just operating in a mindset of gratitude," Mattison told the South Florida Sun Sentinel when Dolphins players cleaned out their lockers at the end of the past season in early January. "Everything is good. I'm healthy. I'm able to walk. Proud of that. So, now I'm just on the road to recovery from the injury, and it'll be a long process.""
"It could've gotten dangerous if the ailment occurred lower toward the C7 vertebra at the base of the neck. Fortunately for Mattison, that's not where the injury occurred, and he walked off under his own power at Soldier Field on Aug. 10. "It does get scary when you deal with the neck," Mattison said. "For me, I was moving my legs and I was able to walk off the field immediately, so that concern wasn't there so much. ... ""
Alexander Mattison emerged in Dolphins camp as a power tailback with short-yardage strength and flashes of burst. In the Aug. 10 preseason game in Chicago he scored, then caught a fourth-quarter pass and rumbled 21 yards before being tackled inside the 5-yard line. He suffered a neck injury that required emergency fusion surgery and was ruled out for the 2025 season. The injury risked his ability to walk if it had struck lower near the C7 vertebra; he walked off under his own power and has expressed gratitude while beginning a long recovery.
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