FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Lorenzo Mauldin practiced in full on Friday.
And?
“I felt normal,” he said.
Those three words signaled the most encouraging development yet in his recovery from a frightening scene that marred the Jets’ season-opening victory over Cleveland. Mauldin, a rookie outside linebacker, is set to play against Philadelphia on Sunday.
Two weeks ago he was carted off the field, immobilized and unconscious. The Jets feared that Mauldin had sustained a spinal injury after what appeared to be a head-to-head collision at the bottom of a pile.
He sustained a concussion, woke up in a Manhattan hospital the next morning and did not remember anything about the play — from diving to hit Johnny Manziel to trying to get up before falling to the ground and lying there motionless.