FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — On Wednesday night, timing and circumstance converged in a way Darrelle Revis never anticipated.
Just three weeks after suffering his second diagnosed concussion, the Jets’ star cornerback attended the New York City premiere of the “Concussion” movie, starring Will Smith.
“It makes you think about other things, but at the same time, I think I’ve still got a lot of football to play. But you never know with these things. This is something serious,” Revis said in an interview with Newsday in the Jets’ locker room Thursday.
On screen, he witnessed his worst fear in the form of cautionary tales about NFL greats such as Steelers Hall of Fame center Mike Webster, who was posthumously diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a neurodegenerative brain disease.