according to The Boston Herald\u2019s Zack Cox<\/a>, he provided a brief update.<\/p>\n\u201cChristian Gonzalez is in the locker room after the game,\u201d Cox reported on X on Sunday. \u201cSaid he couldn\u2019t talk to the media (typical for players who leave with a head injury) but that he feels \u2018fine.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Gonzalez had two pass breakups in the game before his early exit. He has not entered concussion protocol as of Monday morning, but the Patriots are at risk of losing him for their next game if he does.<\/p>\n
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He was named a Pro Bowler this season for the first time in his career. In 14 regular-season games, he had 10 passes defended. He did not have any interceptions, but that is a result of teams opting not to throw his way.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
More details of Gonzalez\u2019s injury should emerge soon. It is an encouraging sign that he was not immediately placed in the league\u2019s concussion protocol, however.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New England Patriots beat the Los Angeles Chargers 16-3 in the first round of the NFL Playoffs.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[6032,7,1167,249,2326,2094,6,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-671693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-christian-gonzalez","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-new-england","11":"tag-new-england-patriots","12":"tag-newengland","13":"tag-newenglandpatriots","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-patriots"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115882819877657413","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}