The NFL Players Association on Friday urged the league to implement changes to its concussion protocol in time to protect players in this weekend’s games.
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“Our union has agreed to change the concussion protocols to protect players from returning to play in the case of any similar incident to what we saw on Sept. 25,” the union said in a statement. “We would like these changes to go into effect before this weekend’s games to immediately protect the players and hope the NFL accepts the change before then as well.”The league said in a statement it was working on updates to the protocol but did not commit to implementing them before Sunday’s games.
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