The league's concussion protocol is a complex process. Hurts will have to pass five steps to be medically cleared to play in time for Philly’s Week 17 home game against the Dallas Cowboys.

That is more than Hurts has done in the past two weeks. A player in concussion protocol must make it through five steps, one of which is attending meetings and practicing. Clearance from an ...

In Week 5, New York will visit ... sending him into the league’s concussion protocol and thrusting his status for Sunday into uncertainty. The NFL instituted a five-step protocol to try and ...

Lonnie Walker IV is the latest sidelined Sixer in the team’s injury-packed season. A Sixers official said Walker was ...