Calvin Johnson retired from the NFL last offseason at the ripe old age of 30. In nine seasons with the , the team that drafted him second overall in 2007, Johnson racked up 731 receptions for 11,619 yards and 83 touchdowns. And while Johnson was never listed as suffering a concu sion during his career, that doesn't mean it didn't happen. "Guys get concu sions, they don't tell the coaches," Johnson said Saturday, according to the . "It happens. I don't tell the coach sometimes cause I know I got a job to do
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Riley Sheahan Women Jersey "They're going to dispute that, but anytime you black out, anytime you hit the ground and everything is stars and stuff, any time your brain hits your skull, that's a concu sion. No matter how severe it is, it's a concu sion. Now granted, some people get nausea. That's a severe concu sion when you get hit like that and you get nausea and stuff like that. But if you play football long enough you're going to have concu sions ." Johnson's comments come days after 's wife, Gisele Bundchen, told
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Jared McCann Women Jersey he was never listed on a injury report. "With all the helmet contact, guys hitting the ground, heads hitting ground," Johnson told ESPN in July 2016. "It's simply when your brain touches your skull from the movement or the inertia, man. It's simple to get a concu sion, you know. I don't know how many I've had over my career, you know, but ." In October 2012, three years before Johnson retired, he said he was concu sed on a big hit from linebacker . Then-Lions coach Jim Schwartz disputed Johnson's concu sion claim. "Our evaluation was he was not concu sed," . "He was thoroughly checked. We were very strong in our evaluation. He was cleared to go back in the game, and he was on a protocol after that, and he
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