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Teammates gather around Tua Tagovailoa after he suffered a concussion Thursday. The injury came days after he had been cleared to play despite being seen stumbling after a hit to the head.SAN ANTONIO — When Tua Tagovailoa left the field on a stretcher Thursday night, some people looked away and some people prayed. Some moved on to what was next, and others thought back to four days earlier, when the Miami Dolphins quarterback staggered after another blow to the head but was cleared to return.
Hopefully, that kind of sadness isn’t in Tagovailoa’s future. Hopefully, it never overwhelms anybody playing in this modern era of football, when we’re all aware of what chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, is and when the game has undergone widespread changes in rules, procedures and equipment to prevent it.
The director of Boston University’s CTE center told the AP that Nobis — who played at Jefferson, starred at UT, and in 1966, became the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft — had the most severe form of the disease, showing a “severe loss of neurons and large CTE lesions throughout the cerebral cortex.” Even before Miami’s next game Thursday night against Cincinnati, there was skepticism about how the Dolphins were handling Tagovailoa. Hours before kickoff Thursday, concussion expert Chris Nowinski posted a Twitter warning that the quarterback shouldn’t have been allowed to play.
But was it just one person who didn’t take this seriously enough? After Thursday’s game, Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel told reporters that “the best news we can give is that everything checked out and he didn’t have anything more serious than a concussion,” as if that wasn’t serious enough.
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