Ed: Clark Practices, Says He Feels Good

Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:11

Written by Ed Bouchette

Ryan Clark said he’s  passed all his concussion tests, including the one where he went through his first practice today.
  “I feel good,’’ said Clark, who left Sunday’s game in the first half with a concussion.
“I wasn’t knocked out, I was never actually ‘asleep’ on the field. I venture to say I’ve been in that position before but not been taken out of the game or not told anybody. I passed my test this morning that I had to take, practice was another test, you have to make sure none of the symptoms linger from having a concussion.”
      Clark said it’s his first concussion, although doctors initially suspected one after he hit Baltimore’s Willis McGahee in the AFC championship game after the 2008 seaso, “But I took the test the next day and I was smarter after that hit than I was on my baseline.”
   Clark will have to pass a final test Friday or Saturday in order to be cleared to play on Sunday.