As he attended an early movie screening a few weeks ago, Pierre Woods felt his eyes well up.
"Concussion" hits hard for football players, especially former players.
"I almost cried," Woods said. "My eyes teared, because I identified with it. You've got to see the movie. I'm not going to give the ending away.
"At the end of the movie, it touched me. It was very emotional to me."
In the movie, which will be released nationally Friday, actor Will Smith plays Dr. Bennet Omalu, whose research into the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy initially was dismissed by the NFL.