Daniel Evans Suffers Mild Concussion

EVANS HAS MILD CONCUSSION: N.C. State quarterback Daniel Evans suffered a mild concussion during the final drive of the game, his father, Wolfpack radio analyst Johnny Evans, said.

Evans said Daniel is “expected to be just fine” but noted that team physicians will monitor his son’s progress closely before allowing him to engage in contact.

The redshirt freshman apparently suffered the blow about three plays before game’s end, when he was tackled hard on the sideline, Johnny Evans said.

Evans said his son reported that he didn’t remember the last few plays of the game but that Pack offensive coordinator Marc Trestman told Daniel he still made the right calls.

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52 Responses to Daniel Evans Suffers Mild Concussion

  1. packpigskinfan23 10/16/2006 at 9:44 AM #

    McNair got it bad in the Carolina game… he looked like he was just woken up from a drug induced coma…

  2. Cardiff Giant 10/16/2006 at 9:46 AM #

    If he was concussed, why was he still in the game? Or is the idea that a concussed Daniel Evans is a better bet with the game on the line than a non-concussed Marcus Stone? That’s quite a concept if so.

  3. choppack1 10/16/2006 at 9:57 AM #

    CG – Actually – that’s a fair point – I guess in those situations, everyone gets caught up in the moment. “Get up Daniel! We gotta keep moving!” You probably aren’t thinking – his brain just got shaken around and he doesn’t have his normal mental capabilities. Of course, if you hadn’t burned those time outs…

  4. BJD95 10/16/2006 at 9:58 AM #

    As I understand it, not always easy to immediately diagnose a concussion vs. just getting your bell rung. I’m sure he told our people that he was fine.

    Think about this – that great sack avoidance/flip pass was apparently AFTER getting a concussion. Pretty impressive.

  5. noah 10/16/2006 at 9:59 AM #

    He was still in the game because in the mad scramble of the final minute of a football game, you can’t possibly be aware of every single thing that’s going on.

    If you’ve never been on the sidelines for a game, trust me…it’s chaos. A head coach has about nine people talking to him at once and it’s a constantly revolving group of people doing the chattering.

    With no timeouts and the clock running, you can’t stop to grab the little penlight, shine it in Evans’ eyes and see if the pupils dilate (I always assumed that’s what they’re looking for).

  6. choppack1 10/16/2006 at 10:25 AM #

    BJD95 and noah – I agree 100% – that was kind of my point – and as I said in an earlier post on this thread – you can now understand why he made that one mental mistake on our last offensive play. Maybe he makes it anyway – but, in the 60 or so passes he’s thrown starting w/ BC game, that one was out of character.

    I am more than a little worried what the concussion does to his confidence, but more worried about his “brain.” You can bet those Terps are practicing their head shots right now.

  7. Cardiff Giant 10/16/2006 at 10:34 AM #

    “If you’ve never been on the sidelines for a game, trust me…it’s chaos. A head coach has about nine people talking to him at once and it’s a constantly revolving group of people doing the chattering.

    With no timeouts and the clock running, you can’t stop to grab the little penlight, shine it in Evans’ eyes and see if the pupils dilate (I always assumed that’s what they’re looking for).”

    I have had two concussions (playing rugby and lacrosse, not football) and trust me, I knew it. In the lacrosse one I stopped a shot in the side of the head fired by some attackman with a freaking cannon for an arm. But for my helmet I’d be on the right hand of God as we speak. But trust me – I knew.

  8. packpigskinfan23 10/16/2006 at 10:53 AM #

    CG- its good that you knew, but I have also had two concussions, and didnt know. One being from flipping a car 3 times end over end without a seatbelt on, and the other from being slammed into the goal post playing soccer… in the heat of a high pressure situation like this game, it is not at all unbelievable that Evans himself didnt know he had one.

  9. Cardiff Giant 10/16/2006 at 11:02 AM #

    ^ I can see that. That makes sense.

  10. primacyone 10/16/2006 at 11:13 AM #

    I had a concussion during a football game back in high school. I was a full back and me and this defensive end were going hard at each other all night. One time we hit helmet to helment. Mine came off. I don’t rembember the hit, but I do remember picking up my helmet.

    This was in the first half – probably early second quarter. I continued to play to half time. The thought of a concussion never crossed my mind or anybody elses. I was the defensive captain at the time, and I wasn’t able to speak so well at half time when it is was my turn to give the low down on the opposing offense.

    Any way, I spent the next four days in the hospital. No one, not even myself, knew something was wrong during the game, much less right after the play.

  11. Tar Heel Fan 10/16/2006 at 11:25 AM #

    You know what is sad? Your QB plays better with a concussion than ours do with a clear head.

  12. Cardiff Giant 10/16/2006 at 12:24 PM #

    I guess this shows that people can experience concussions different ways. I remember trying to run up the field in my lacrosse one and the ground was literally tilting back and forth.

  13. choppack1 10/16/2006 at 1:15 PM #

    CG – That would have to do w/ the severity of your concussion and probably where you sustained your injury. In some cases, your balance isn’t impacted as severely.

  14. GAWolf 10/16/2006 at 1:26 PM #

    Cardiff:

    I have a contradicting personal experience to yours.

    Once in a baseball game they sat me out after taking a blow to the head going after a fly ball. The coach spoke with me and although I said I was fine, he could tell different. The next thing he knows, I’m walking up to the plate with a bat in my hand, no helmet, and the other team literally had a man in the box and our pitcher was releasing the pitch to the plate. They took me straight to the hospital. But had they not caught it prior to taking me out of the game, I sure never would have.

  15. noah 10/16/2006 at 2:01 PM #

    Evans said he didn’t even remember the end of the game…so it’s probably hard for him to gather the mental alertness to realize he had a concussion.

  16. Cardiff Giant 10/16/2006 at 2:14 PM #

    “CG – That would have to do w/ the severity of your concussion and probably where you sustained your injury. In some cases, your balance isn’t impacted as severely.”

    Yeah, that makes sense, too. I never even saw the ball coming in my case – I was running across the crease and WHAM! right up side the head. I dropped like a sack of cat crap.

  17. Rick 10/16/2006 at 2:17 PM #

    I can belive CG has taken alot of hits to the head.

  18. Cardiff Giant 10/16/2006 at 2:42 PM #

    ^ I can’t believe you don’t spell your name with a “D.”

  19. Rick 10/16/2006 at 2:48 PM #

    What does Drick mean?

  20. Cardiff Giant 10/16/2006 at 2:56 PM #

    Or, you could keep the “r” and just add a “p.” That works, too. Right?

  21. Rick 10/16/2006 at 3:06 PM #

    pdrick?
    Not getting you.

  22. Cardiff Giant 10/16/2006 at 3:07 PM #

    ^ I am not surprised. Strike “Dick” and “Prick.” Substitute “Dumb Ass.”

  23. Mike 10/16/2006 at 3:19 PM #

    Too funny Cardiff, good job!

  24. statered 10/16/2006 at 3:35 PM #

    I have had what I called two “standing concussions” which is more severe than getting your bell rung but you are not “out.” I got both playing basketball. In each case I stayed in the game. It was only later that I realized I didn’t remember a thing from the games after that, I only remembered that my head was “cloudy” so to speak.

  25. noah 10/16/2006 at 4:08 PM #

    I’ve only had one concussion. It feels like your head is stuffed with cotton. You can tie your shoes…you just can’t remember what color they are. Or what day it is.

    The really fun part was trying to take a psych exam the next day. It takes a little while for the cobwebs to clear.

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