{"id":54657,"date":"2017-12-15T11:35:48","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T11:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=54657"},"modified":"2017-12-15T11:35:48","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T11:35:48","slug":"colts-te-brandon-williams-suffers-concussion-frightening-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/colts-te-brandon-williams-suffers-concussion-frightening-hit.html","title":{"rendered":"Colts&#8217; TE Brandon Williams suffers concussion from frightening hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Colts&#8217; TE Brandon Williams suffers concussion from frightening hit<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Colts&#8217; TE Brandon Williams suffers concussion from frightening hit:- Indianapolis Colts tight end Brandon Williams left Thursday night&#8217;s game and was hospitalized with a head injury. He was carted off the field on a stretcher and taken to a local hospital for precautionary reasons but the team quickly announced that he had no neck pain and movement in his limbs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">After the game, Colts coach Chuck Pagano said Williams suffered a concussion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">&#8220;It was a pretty scary thing, but he&#8217;s doing well,&#8221; Pagano said in his postgame news conference. &#8220;He is back in the training room right now.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The fifth-year pro collided helmet to helmet with Broncos linebacker Deiontrez Mount during a Colts punt and immediately collapsed to the ground, appearing to be unconscious.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Team medical personnel immediately rushed onto to the field to attend to him and eventually called for a stretcher, which he was strapped to with his head and neck immobilized.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">More than a dozen Colts players gathered around Williams, who lay in the middle of the field for at least 10 minutes, as medical personnel tended to him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Concerns were initially heightened because of Williams&#8217; history with spinal injuries. 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