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Every day that Bears safety Jaquan Brisker was in concussion protocol — and there were a lot of them — his mom would ask if he was ready to return to playing. Each time, he said he was.
It never happened.
“I told [my mom] I’m about to be playing this week,” Brisker said Wednesday in his first meeting with Bears reporters since the injury. “I really thought I was fine, to be honest. I mean, it was just a hard process, a hard thing. Obviously, I wanted to be out there playing football, but I just couldn’t.