'We were paid to give concussions'

SI.com | December 9, 2015

The MMQB screened Will Smith’s upcoming drama Concussion with 70 former NFL players. For some, it was a panic-inducing horror flick

Keith McCants, the fourth pick of the 1990 NFL draft, screened Will Smith’s movie “Concussion” and told The MMQB: ”We were paid to give concussions. If we knew that we were killing people, I would have never put on the jersey.”

ATLANTA — Cramped in his seat, the man in the back row of the movie theater cut a hulking silhouette. His knees pressed against the row in front of him, and every time he dug into his bag of popcorn, his leather jacket brushed against the adjacent chairs.