Miami Dolphins fullback Alec Ingold currently in concussion protocol
The 29-year-old suffered a head injury towards the end of Sunday's practice.
It's unclear what happened. The Dolphins were in a situational team drill with their back against their own end zone when suddenly Ingold appeared to collapse as soon as the ball snapped. Trainers rushed to his side as the entire team took a knee and the crowd at the Baptist Health Training Facility fell silent.
A member of the Dolphins since March 2022, the one-time Pro Bowler plays a crucial role in the team's rushing attack.
'I think Alec Ingold is definitely a big piece to that puzzle with our run game,' Tua Tagovailoa said mid-November 2024.
Ingold's leadership has also proved invaluable as his teammates voted him a captain in back-to-back seasons in 2023 and 2024.
'There's a lot of guys that have leadership skills and play the game to have a 'C' on their chest,' coach Mike McDaniel said in Oct. 2024. 'He proved to every teammate – not that he needed to at all – but he really wore the 'C' on his chest, leading, helping our offense operate but really did some outstanding things at the point of attack against a physical front that's really trying to inflict punishment on fullbacks in general. He was instrumental. He was at the point of attack a ton and had a very, very high execution rate.'
And with many of last year's team leaders no longer with the Dolphins, Ingold was likely going to be relied upon even more from a leadership prespective.
'We lost a lot of great leaders, a lot of great captains, a lot of great production, but every team goes through that,' Ingold said July 22. 'If we can utilize some of that turnover to have fresh faces, fresh opportunities, people stepping up and coming into their own, I think we have to trust that. So I think we have the roster and the team where we need it, and it really comes down to trusting, trusting each other in those conversations. So leaders, captains, role players, scout team, like it doesn't really matter – we all need to get on the same page, trusting each other.'
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