Concussions were a topic of discussion Wednesday after a study of deceased players’ brains published the previous day showed a strong link between playing football and incurring CTE.
Arizona senior guard Jacob Alsadek said he has suffered one concussion in his career, in the first quarter of the Washington game on Oct. 31, 2015. Unfamiliar with the symptoms, he played the rest of the period.
“I stayed in the game because I had never had a concussion, so I had no idea,” Alsadek said. “Then all of a sudden I come back in, and I’m just like, ‘What is wrong?’ I told my coach I don’t know where I’m at, and then I realized I had a concussion.
“That was something that was definitely scary, just because I didn’t know what the concussion symptoms really felt like.”
Alsadek sat out the following game against USC.
