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NY Jets star QB Sam Darnold will not be playing this week’s Monday Night game against the Cleveland Browns contracting mono according to head coach Adam Gase.
#Jets coach Adam Gase tells reporters that QB Sam Darnold will miss Monday’s game with mono. That is unexpected.
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) September 12, 2019
Per Adam Gase: Sam Darnold has mono and will miss Monday's game against the Browns, and perhaps more.pic.twitter.com/FPlcYoibws
— Jets Videos (@snyjets) September 12, 2019
Mononeuclosis has been dubbed the “kissing disease” by many because it’s usually contracted via saliva. Unfortunately for Darnold he could be out several weeks
Via The Mayo Clinic
Infectious mononucleosis (mono) is often called the kissing disease. The virus that causes mono is transmitted through saliva, so you can get it through kissing, but you can also be exposed through a cough or sneeze, or by sharing a glass or food utensils with someone who has mono. However, mononucleosis isn’t as contagious as some infections, such as the common cold.
The virus has an incubation period of approximately four to six weeks, although in young children this period may be shorter. Signs and symptoms such as a fever and sore throat usually lessen within a couple of weeks, but fatigue, enlarged lymph nodes and a swollen spleen may last for a few weeks longer.
Gase said Sam Darnold could miss several weeks with mono #nyj
— Brian Costello (@BrianCoz) September 12, 2019
Darnold will be "quarantined" at his apartment until Jets' medical staff feels it's safe to expose him to rest of team. He's already lost 5 lbs.
— Chris Mortensen (@mortreport) September 12, 2019
Of course, the Internet had jokes about Darnold’s unfortunate circumstance.
Sources close to me are telling me Sam Darnold contracted mono by kissing his girlfriend between lunch and fourth period math. Tough break for the Jets.
— John 14:6 (@Believe_John146) September 12, 2019
SO YOU MEAN TO TELL ME….THAT MY QUARTERBACK….CAUGHT MONO, THE FUCKING KISSING DISEASE AND IS GOING TO MISS MULTIPLE WEEKS!?
YOU GOTTA BE FUCKING KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW pic.twitter.com/C1RdRxGC0w
— scanlan’s apprentice 🪬🔮 (@kimononextdoor_) September 12, 2019
#Jets fans hearing Sam Darnold might miss a couple weeks with mono….. pic.twitter.com/cRnkB9siqV
— Kimberley A. Martin (@ByKimberleyA) September 12, 2019
who gets mono as an adult? grow up and get some chlamydia. https://t.co/awxO0TJdxU
— abdul 🌌📷 (@Advil) September 12, 2019
https://twitter.com/MahomesToKelce/status/1172156996377878529
https://twitter.com/betmybookie/status/1172159820079742976
#Jets were probably starting 0-3 anyway but at least it would be an interesting 0-3 caused by playcalling and no CBs not by those things and the kissing disease
— Joe Caporoso (@JCaporoso) September 12, 2019
Mono still happens after high school? https://t.co/xla29J3j7Q
— Jennifer Lee Chan – threads @jenniferleechan (@jenniferleechan) September 12, 2019
Lmaooooooo throw the whole Jets away they QB is out from the kissing disease https://t.co/sLgiGlRwDf
— Fat Derek Fisher (@TallRico_) September 12, 2019
Wow. Well congrats on the kissing, Sam https://t.co/TXXARpdW9r
— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) September 12, 2019
I had mono in fifth grade and had to miss Nicole Hoffman’s roller skating party, so I can sympathize here.
— Connor Hughes (@Connor_J_Hughes) September 12, 2019