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In the 2010 season for the Canadian Football League, there have been 50 reported concussions; 44.8 percent of players reported having a concussion or concussion-like symptoms, 16.9 percent had confirmed that they had a concussion, and 69.6 percent of all players who suffered from concussions that year suffered from more than one. [92]
Tagovailoa did not miss any games during the 2023 NFL season. [4] In the 2023 season, he led the NFL in passing yards and helped bring the 2023 Dolphins to their best record (11–6) since 2008. During the 2024 off-season, the Miami Dolphins agreed to grant Tagovailoa a four-year contract extension, valued at $212.4 million. [2]
Concussions are also an issue outside of professional football. In a 2010 study by Purdue University and Indiana University, an estimated 43,000 to 67,000 football players suffer a concussion every season. However, because many injuries go unreported, the true number may exceed 100,000.
Tagovailoa's first confirmed NFL concussion was during the 2022 season, during a scary moment on "Thursday Night Football" against the Cincinnati Bengals in Week 4. The play was the subject of ...
Last year, after Tagovailoa sustained at least two concussions in the 2022 season, the Miami Herald asked two concussion experts — Nowinski and Robert Cantu — how the situation should be ...
The NFL saw its fewest number of concussions in the preseason since tracking started in 2015. There were 44 concussions in practices and games, a decrease of about 24% from last year. “The ...
The NFL introduced new protocols in 2011 for spotting potential concussions on the field, diagnosing them as soon as possible, keeping neurologists on hand during game, and immediately sidelining ...
While much attention in the NFL has focused on limiting or treating concussions, the latest medical research indicates that the brain damage in CTE is caused by the cumulative impact of all collisions involving a player's head, [3] [4] which confirms what was generally known nearly a century ago but was then largely forgotten. [5]