CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- On Oct. 22, the day before the Carolina Panthers' home game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 31-year-old defensive end Henry Anderson was at home with his wife when his legs and arms went numb and his speech became blurred.
"It was a stroke, so it's basically like a blood clot in your brain,'' Anderson said Wednesday.
After countless tests with medical experts locally and nationally that couldn't determine what caused the stroke, the Panthers on Wednesday opened Anderson's 21-day window to return from the NFL's non-football illness list.