Demaryius Thomas could only pretend to be OK.
After the Denver Broncos wide receiver found himself on the wrong end of one of Kam Chancellor's greatest hits -- a tone-setting moment early in Super Bowl XLVIII -- he popped up off the turf, trotted back toward the huddle and casually tossed the ball back to an official.
But he was feeling it.
"Kam Chancellor broke my ribs," Thomas would later say, presumably in exaggeration. "My first catch, I got decleated. I got hit probably from here, back 3 yards the opposite way.