Collin Miller remembers everything going dark.
In the tense moments after the Nebraska inside linebacker collided with Illinois running back Mike Epstein late in the teams' Nov. 21 game, there was a three-second span right away "when I kind of wasn't conscious," Miller recalled this week.
"Then, as I woke up on the field, my body felt like it never has felt before," he says. "From my neck all the way down, there was a tingling and a fuzzy and kind of hot feeling. Right away, I was like, 'OK, I definitely have a concussion.'"
The gravity of the situation intensified when a Nebraska trainer asked Miller to squeeze two of the trainer's fingers.