SAN JOSE --Jared Leaf and San Jose State won't get the inspirational moment they had hoped for this season.
Leaf's collegiate football career is over, coach Ron Caragher said Monday after his weekly news conference. The fifth-year senior linebacker who survived life-threatening burns in an apartment fire last year has not recovered from concussion symptoms suffered in August.Caragher doubts Leaf could successfully petition the NCAA for a sixth year.The 6-foot-2, 240-pound player from Martinez has not been with the team since the week before the season opener after suffering a head injury during practice. Caragher described the injury as a freak accident.