Nick Foles, the Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback, is taking a break from the game following his wife Tori’s
miscarriage.
Nick, 30, raised concerns earlier this week when it was found that he was missing from this week’s structured team
activities.
On Tuesday, head coach Doug Marrone revealed Nick’s absence for personal reasons.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with Nick and his family.” Marrone told reporters, “He knows, like anything else, that
we’re here for him.”
Tori, 28, spoke up about the family’s tragedy on Instagram the next day, stating that she went into “sudden labor” on
Sunday at barely 15 weeks pregnant while suffering from pneumonia.
Tori, Nick, and their daughter Lily James were spending the weekend with Philadelphia Eagles coach Press Taylor
and his wife, Brooklyn Scheer.
“Our weekend together was not quite as planned, but blessed by their presence and the help they provided us with an
unexpected set of circumstances that Nick and I suddenly found ourselves in,” Tori captioned a snapshot of the two
of them.
“Early Sunday morning after a rough couple days fighting a “virus” of some sort, I went into sudden labor and knew
something was wrong.”
“Not long after we learned we had miscarried our baby boy,” Tori continued. “To fully labor and deliver and even see
our baby boy was a pretty devastating process.”
“Come to find that I had contracted an infection of pneumonia in the blood,” she went on to say. A severe
complication of the bacterium phenomenon is that the bacteria can enter the bloodstream, resulting in septic shock
and organ failure.