Matthew Stafford’s Wife Kelly Stafford Slams NFL Over Concussion Protocol: ‘I Have Every Emotion Running Through Me’
usmagazine.comStanding by her man. Kelly Stafford opened up about husband Matthew Stafford being put on concussion protocol — and the dangers that come with playing professional football. “If you follow NFL, you just heard Matthew got put into concussion protocol,” Kelly, 31, wrote via her “Morning After” podcast’s Instagram Story on Wednesday, November 9, after Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay confirmed that Matthew, 34, had been examined for the injury. “If you have listened to my podcast at all, you know how a big a deal it is to me.
The head is not something to be messed with…and I hope as this sport develops, so does the concern for head health and the research around it.”The Georgia native — who shares four daughters with the Super Bowl champion, twins Chandler and Sawyer, 5, Hunter, 3, and Tyler, 2 — revealed that she was “not okay” after learning that her beau was starting the protocol. “I have every emotion running through me.
Concerned, angry, sad, tired…all of them,” she continued. On Wednesday, McVay told reporters that while Matthew didn’t give any indication he was dealing with concussion symptoms during the Rams’ Sunday, November 6, game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, he was later asked to undergo protocol after medical staff examined him.
Kelly, for her part, continued to be vocal about the league’s need for better safety precautions, reposting a message that Green Bay Packers linebacker De’Vondre Campbell wrote on Twitter that read, “I think it’s time y’all take some of the money y’all make off us and invest in grass fields for every team around the league,” The turf is literally like concrete.
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