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Browns safety Jordan Poyer vows to resume career despite lacerated kidney sending him to intensive care, concerns of loved ones

Browns starting free safety Jordan Poyer absorbed a brutal hit he compares to a car accident, then grabbed his cellphone moments before an ambulance took him to Saint Thomas Midtown Hospital in Nashville, Tenn.

“I called my mom, called my girlfriend, called me dad, just let them know I was all right, that I was breathing and I wasn’t dead yet,” Poyer said Monday, speaking for the first time since he suffered a lacerated kidney Oct. 16 in a 28-26 loss to the Tennessee Titans. “They were all happy to just hear my voice, and they were all concerned.