Eric Woodyard
ALLEN PARK, Mich. — Detroit Lions security Morice Norris is again with the crew and has entered the concussion protocol after struggling a scary harm in Friday's preseason sport at Atlanta.
“Clearly, Mo's again with us. He is doing properly,” Lions head coach Dan Campbell mentioned Monday. “It is good to have him again and he is good. He is in concussion protocol. We're gonna take it good and simple right here to ensure he is good over the subsequent, name it 10 to 14 days and reassess, in order that's excellent news.”
It was a horrifying scene initially of the fourth quarter, as Morris was carted off the sphere and put in an ambulance. His head snapped again as he went down whereas making an attempt to sort out Falcons working again Nathan Carter.
The officiating crew introduced that the sport was suspended after Campbell and Atlanta coach Raheem Morris determined to not end the competition. Gamers from each groups joined fingers in unison to indicate help for Norris as he obtained medical consideration on the sphere.
“Raheem and I agreed that was what we have been going to do. We talked to [NFL official] Shawn Hochuli, who tell us that ‘the sport was nonetheless on.' And we communicated with one another,” Campbell mentioned. “We advised Shawn we might be taking knees, and he mentioned, ‘I perceive.' And that is the way in which it went, and the sport was known as.”
After the harm, Norris was transported to the Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta for commentary and he returned to secure situation whereas regaining feeling and motion in all his extremities. Two days later, he returned to the Lions' observe facility with teammates after sharing that he was “good” by way of social media, whereas thanking everybody for his or her help. Campbell was blissful to see him again.
“Everyone was fired as much as see him. It is a breath of contemporary air. That is laborious when one thing like that occurs and you do not know,” Campbell mentioned. “I can not let you know the variety of occasions I've see guys with concussions, knocked out. I've had them myself.
“However, when you've these, and you do not know … you realize they're respiration, however you do not know the rest and so they're gone, it is somewhat completely different since you're making an attempt to dam that out however but it is nonetheless there,” he mentioned. “So, that is makes it somewhat harder and that is why it is out of the norm.”
