NFLPA's Smith Attributes Concussion Spike To Better Player Reporting

NFLPA Exec Dir DeMaurice Smith appeared on CBS' "Face the Nation" this morning and said the increase in concussions this season is likely the result of "doing a better job capturing the injuries that are occurring." He said, "We probably have a better system where players feel better to report the injuries that they have. So we look at the numbers not as a raw spike ... (but) something we've already known." He added of the league's response to the issue of head injuries, "The league goes absolutely as far as the union pushes them. So if it's the issue of sideline concussion experts, the union had to fight for that" ("Face The Nation," CBS, 2/7).