RIO DE JANEIRO — The first chronicled concussion of Jahvid Best’s NFL career came in a preseason game during his second season with the Detroit Lions. He’d return that season, in 2011, but suffer another concussion in October.
His career was over, though not officially until the summer of 2013, when the Lions choose to release the former first-round draft pick after missing all of the previous season with post-concussion issues.
The former running back at the University of California then transitioned to track and field, eventually earning a spot in these Rio Games representing St. Lucia, the tiny Caribbean island nation where his father was born.