by Alan Schwarz/NY Times
Laveranues Coles is equal parts receiver and raconteur, the New York Jets player who talks when no one else will. But upon hearing one subject — concussions, specifically the two he has sustained in the past year — he immediately lost his smile, and looked around the locker room to see who might be listening.
“I can’t talk about that,” he said. “You know I can’t talk about that.”
Then he walked away.
Mr. Coles is the third star receiver on the Jets to endure significant concussions; Al Toon retired in 1992 because of postconcussion syndrome, and Wayne Chrebet did the same two years ago. Mr. Chrebet, 34, has recently acknowledged he has bouts of depression and memory problems so severe that he cannot make the routine drive from his New Jersey home to his Long Island restaurant without a global-positioning system. READ MORE
