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Raiders’ Gareon Conley reflects on scary neck injury in Week 1

ALAMEDA — Gareon Conley admitted to some concern while laying on the sideline after being inadvertently hit in the head with the thigh of teammate Johnathan Abram.

Yet by the time medical personnel had removed Conley’s facemask, strapped him to a cervical board were taking him from the Coliseum on a stretcher, the cornerback’s concern had shifted to his family.

“I don’t want my family to think something is more than what it is,” Conley said Friday as the Raiders wrapped up preparations to host the Kansas City Chiefs at the Coliseum. “I understand their side too.