Sam Darnold says he will play through thumb injury

New York Jets quarterback Sam Darnold is playing hurt, and it appears he will be for the rest of 2019.

Darnold is dealing with a sprained left thumb, which the quarterback said was an issue of pain tolerance. Coach Adam Gase admitted that the thumb was likely to bother him for the remainder of the season.

Jets QB Sam Darnold called his sprained left thumb a "pain-tolerance thing … I should be fine." Coach Adam Gase said the injury will bother Darnold for the remainder of the season, but "it looks like he's going to play through it." https://t.co/C6kGqXgiku

— Rich Cimini (@RichCimini) October 28, 2019

Darnold suffered the thumb sprain Sunday against the Jacksonville Jaguars. He threw two touchdowns and three interceptions in that defeat, and the thumb injury rounded off a thoroughly miserable day for him. It remains to be seen how much the thumb injury impacts his play going forward.