Jason Kelce calls on the NFL to do more research into the long-term effects of concussions

Miami Dolphins backmost Tua Tagovailoa could return for nan team's adjacent crippled against nan Arizona Cardinals connected Sunday aft missing nan team’s past 4 games pinch a concussion.

Tagovailoa suffered a scary concussion against nan Buffalo Bills successful Week 2, nan 3rd diagnosed concussion of his NFL career. 

Jason and Travis Kelce were talking astir Tagovailoa’s imaginable return to play during a caller section of "New Heights," and it sparked a speech astir nan semipermanent effects of concussions.

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Former NFL subordinate Jason Kelce anterior to a crippled betwixt nan New Orleans Saints and nan Kansas City Chiefs astatine GEHA Field astatine Arrowhead Stadium.  (Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images)

"We were talking astir this connected nan ‘Monday Night Countdown,’ Ryan Clark, for illustration each azygous neurologist that they talked to did not opportunity [conclusively] that he should extremity playing football, and they each don’t cognize to what grade continuing to play shot aliases continuing to get concussions is doing to semipermanent impact him," Jason Kelce said.

"Whether anybody other wants to talk astir it, I conjecture I will correct now. Like this has been nan large protector successful region successful the NFL for nan past decade, ever since that concussion movie came out. Like nan reality is, cipher knows. It is scary to watch a feline spell retired and person nan magnitude of concussions and nan type of concussions Tua’s had and deliberation that he is not doing thing semipermanent here, but nan neurologists intelligibly don’t cognize that he is."

Tagovailoa faced calls from erstwhile players and coaches telling him to discontinue pursuing his latest concussion, arsenic nan consequence of playing shot and suffering different concussion are excessively awesome for his semipermanent future. 

Jason Kelce has called connected nan NFL to do much investigation connected nan semipermanent effects of concussions.

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NFL commissioner Roger Goodell attends an NFL International Series crippled betwixt nan Chicago Bears and nan Jacksonville Jaguars astatine Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.  (Kirby Lee-Imagn Images)

"This is 1 of nan things that I deliberation nan NFL really needs to do. Like I cognize we are doing nan Guardian Caps, they’re doing a awesome occupation of instituting rules and procedures successful spot that limit helmet to helmet contact, and protocols that let for safer return to play. I really deliberation location should beryllium much investigation done into nan longevity and effects that concussions person and ways to mitigate nan imaginable symptoms," Kelce said. 

"Because, like, I don’t cognize it feels for illustration thing nan NFL tin beryllium pioneering, particularly pinch nan magnitude of money that it makes and nan magnitude of resources and attraction that it gets. That it tin beryllium a portion of perchance processing treatments, protocols, manner factors that tin mitigate nan imaginable semipermanent ramifications of immoderate of these things that I deliberation is successful nan inheritance of NFL players’ minds."

During a convention telephone successful October, Dr. Allen Sills, nan NFL's main aesculapian officer, and Jeff Miller, nan NFL executive vice president overseeing subordinate wellness and safety, said that nan NFL had its lowest number of concussions successful nan preseason since search started successful 2015. 

There were 44 concussions successful practices and games, a alteration of astir 24% from past year.

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Miami Dolphins backmost Tua Tagovailoa talks connected nan sidelines during nan 2nd half of an NFL shot crippled against nan Tennessee Titans, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024, successful Miami Gardens, Fla.  (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Travis Kelce gave a connection to nan Dolphins backmost up of his return. 

"I conscionable want to show Tua, ‘Man, we’re each supporting you brotha. Go retired location and conscionable play patient man, play nan crippled you love, and wish you nan champion of luck brotha,’" Kelce said. 

The Dolphins are presently 2-4, and their discourtesy has been stagnant successful nan absence of Tagovailoa, arsenic Skylar Thompson and Tyler Huntley person some struggled to switch him. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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