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Scary Collision in Packers–Cardinals Game Shows Why the NFL Needs to Do Something About Kickoffs

Thursday night’s game between the Packers and the Cardinals was a great one. An injury-depleted Green Bay team, missing several key players on both sides of the ball, went on the road and beat the NFL’s last remaining undefeated team on a clutch defensive play in endzone in the game’s final seconds. It doesn’t get much better than that.

But the game was also marred by a scary moment in the third quarter when the Packers’ Kylin Hill and the Cardinals’ Jonathan Ward collided on a kickoff return. Ward’s head slammed into Hill’s legs and both players laid on the ground for a while before being taken off on carts.