METAIRIE, La. -- The New Orleans Saints placed tight end Coby Fleener on injured reserve Saturday after he suffered a concussion last week against the Los Angeles Rams and missed practice all week.
It's unclear why the Saints determined that Fleener's injury was significant enough to keep him sidelined for the rest of the season.
Fleener, 29, recently told NOLA.com's Josh Katzenstein that he had suffered four football-related concussions in his life, making this latest one his fifth. He also recently joined the athlete advisory board of SyncThink, a neurotechnology company that is pioneering the use of eye tracking as a way to objectively measure key impairments related to brain injury of athletes on the sidelines in real time.