Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman called the NFL's concussion protocol an "absolute joke" and said the policy is more for public relations than to actually protect the players.
"It's for public opinion, for them to show the public that they care about the players, they care about player safety," Sherman said in a Players Tribune video posted Thursday. "In a show of good faith and goodwill, they said we're going to have an independent trauma expert, an independent neurologist, approve people, and the same things are happening that were happening before.