INDIANAPOLIS – The letters surprised him. The headaches, the nausea, the dizziness? Didn’t surprise him. Before he became a running back for the Indianapolis Colts, Tyler Varga was studying to be a surgeon at Yale. He knows the body, the head. He knows what a concussion can do.
So as it was happening to him, he understood. The confusion, the fatigue. The words forming in his brain but getting lost on the way to his mouth.
Tyler Varga even knows the physics behind the football helmet, and why his concussion happened on a hit that was less a head-on collision, more of a glancing – hard, but glancing – blow.