I think we are over thinking this. Every play anyone could get seriously hurt. I dont think anyone is thinking of Tua on the field. You think of your own safety and making a play so you dont become replaceable. We applaud insane hits and crushing blows but then act like we care so much about someone's specific concussion. Meanwhile these guys are just destroying their brains. I find the so called concern for Tua to be hypocritical.
The Boston University CTE Center announced today that they have now diagnosed 345 former NFL players with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) out of 376 former players studied (91.7 percent).
One-third of former professional football players reported in a new survey that they believe they have the degenerative brain disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.
There are approximately 0.41 concussions per NFL game of American football: 67.7% of concussions involve impact by another player’s helmet, 20.9% involve impact by other body regions (e.g., a knee), and 11.4% involve impact on the ground (29, 31, 32, 40). It has been reported that 9.3% of the concussions involved loss of consciousness and 2.4% of the concussions resulted in hospitalization. Most (92%) of the players who sustain a concussion return to practice in less than 7 days; fewer (69%) of the players who experience loss of consciousness return to practice in less than 7 days.