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Concussions on agenda at NFL owners meetings

Boca Raton, Fla. — One NFL owner said Sunday the league isn’t hiding from its concussion problem, but admitted there was a setback in 2015.

The league announced in January players suffered 271 brain injuries last season, an increase of nearly 32 percent from 2014, but Giants owner John Mara said he’s hopeful the staggering number of concussions in 2015 was just an aberration.

“We have to do more (research),” Mara said Sunday before the start of the league’s annual meetings at the Boca Raton Resort and Club. “We know it’s a long process. We need to understand more about it and particularly how to prevent it.