For the New England Patriots and Rob Gronkowski, no news at this stage may be good news.
If that sounds a strange thing to say then it’s because concussion is an atypical injury. Gronkowski, who took a helmet-to-helmet hit from Jacksonville Jaguars safety Barry Church in the second quarter of Sunday’s AFC Championship game and rose to his feet woozily, will feel better when he feels better.
And that could take a while. The Boston Herald reported on Monday that the 28-year-old remains in concussion protocol, two days after Church delivered the blow that knocked him from the game and put his status for Super Bowl 52 into jeopardy.