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The End of the NFL’s Concussion Crisis

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October 25, 2024
Today, the Miami Dolphins announced that its star quarterback, Tua Tagovailoa, would return to the field on Sunday, after suffering a concussion earlier in the season — the third (and possibly fourth) concussion of his young NFL career. Tagovailoa had cleared a so-called “concussion protocol,” a bloodless term of art that is among several innovations the NFL has made to show that it is doing all it can to minimize severe brain damage in its players. And the league’s campaign is having the desired effect. As New York’s Reeves Wiedeman shows in this deft and surprising narrative of the NFL’s decadeslong brain-injury crisis, a significant shift has occurred in recent years: not in the number of concussions, which have stayed pretty much the same, but in where the ethical onus lies. Not on the fans, not even on the league: “Football had entered its era of personal responsibility,” Reeves writes. “Your brain, your choice.”
—Ryu Spaeth, features editor, New York
 

The End of the NFL’s Concussion Crisis The case of Tua Tagovailoa marks the acceptance stage of widespread brain trauma in the sport.
By Reeves Wiedeman
Photo: Al Diaz/Miami Herald/Getty Images
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