{"id":12207,"date":"2014-10-23T16:43:19","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T20:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=12207"},"modified":"2014-10-23T16:43:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T20:43:28","slug":"former-nfl-qb-kevin-kolb-still-suffers-from-concussions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/10\/23\/former-nfl-qb-kevin-kolb-still-suffers-from-concussions\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NFL QB Kevin Kolb still suffers from concussions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former NFL quarterback Kevin Kolb wrote in a first-person piece for The Monday Morning Quarterback<\/a> that he still suffers from concussion symptoms.<\/p>\n

Kolb enjoyed a stretch as a successful back-up for the Eagles before poor play and concussions forced him out of the NFL after the 2013 preseason.<\/p>\n

My first concussion came right after I took over as the Eagles\u2019 starter, on opening day in 2010, on a Clay Matthews sack. I suffered two more concussions and a very serious rib injury when I was with Arizona in 2012.<\/p>\n

The thing about the last concussion, with Buffalo \u2026 I didn\u2019t think it could possibly be serious. The Redskins defender just ran by me at the end of a routine scramble and caught my helmet with his knee. I went numb from my neck down for about three seconds, but I stayed in the game. I didn\u2019t know what it was or how serious it would turn out to be.\u00a0It couldn\u2019t be happening again.<\/p>\n

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With concussions, sometimes you don\u2019t know what is a symptom and what is not. But some symptoms are impossible to ignore. The ringing is like someone shooting a shotgun right next to my ear, every second of every day. It doesn\u2019t go away.<\/p>\n

The sensitivity to light also has a profound impact. I\u2019ll be in a business meeting indoors and have to politely ask to put on my sunglasses before the headaches and double vision start.<\/p>\n

But I can deal with those symptoms. The short-term memory loss is more difficult. Sometimes I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m just busy with a very full schedule and that\u2019s why I can\u2019t remember everything, or if it\u2019s a concussion symptom.<\/p>\n

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