The National Football League and the NFL Players Association agreed on the changes to the league’s concussion protocol, the two parties announced Saturday.
While the investigation into Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa determined that Miami’s medical staff and unaffiliated medical professional followed the “step-by-step” process of the league’s protocol, the joint statement between the NFL and the NFLPA agreed that the “outcome” in the case “is not what was intended when Protocols were drafted” in 2013.
In doing so, the new protocol will include the term “ataxia” as part of the “mandatory no-go” symptoms.