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Ex-BYU and NFL player focuses new career on concussions

A former BYU football star whose NFL career was cut short partly by concussions has now decided to devote himself to helping others with similar injuries. Late last month, Austin Collie quit his football career to work at a Provo clinic.

“I want to make football players aware that, 'Hey, you may have had something, but that doesn't mean there's doomsday right around the corner.”

PROVO — A former BYU football star whose NFL career was cut short partly by concussions has now decided to devote himself to helping others with similar injuries.

Late last month, Austin Collie informed his team in the Canadian Football League that he's ending his football career to work for an innovative concussion clinic in Provo.