Tight end will undergo CAT scan on Tuesday
ASHBURN – Chris Cooley knew his concussion was bad enough to leave the game. But he termed it a mild one, saying he remembered everything that happened.
Cooley, speaking on 106.7 “The Fan” with LaVar Arrington and Chad Dukes, said he will undergo a CAT scan Tuesday. He took a baseline neurological test Monday, saying it showed him close to normal.
Cooley, though, can’t be cleared to return to football until he shows no concussion-like symptoms for two days.
He suffered the concussion on a hit by Indianapolis linebacker Clint Session on a seven-yard catch in the second quarter. But Cooley returned for another play before exiting and returning after halftime.
After the initial hit, Cooley said he “came off the field, took a breath and thought, ‘Wow.’ I had the idea I could come back out and get moving around and feel OK. I passed all the doctor’s tests. [But] I started to get more and more of a headache.”
The longer he played, the more he noticed a difference.
“I was slow on the field,” he said on 106.7. “I felt stuff was happening around me way faster than I was happening. I wasn’t helping the team to be out there and definitely not helping myself.”
A day later he was feeling better, though he said he sat on the couch rather than lie down to sleep Sunday night. This for a concussion that wasn’t severe.
“It was one of those deals where I had a concussion but it was mild enough [that] I was never out of it at all,” Cooley said. “I remember everything.”
