Goodell says NFL protocols were followed in Jalen Hurts medical review

The most important thing here is Jalen's health, ultimately, in the future. And he's a wonderful young man and not just a great player, but he's someone we all care deeply about. So I'm more worried about his health, ultimately, but the protocols were followed. Our process is to make sure that's the case. Our chief medical officer has gone through that, So we're comfortable with what we've seen and the protocols that have happened. When you get into medical evaluations, you see different people have different opinions on that. you all are reporting different people are making those evaluations without even seeing the player or rather than seeing the medical records and i think that's important to understand we have the greatest medical uh advisors and and people that are working on the health of our players uh well we welcome that um that's part of our processes that's fine um we have uh chief our chief medical officer has been through the protocols uh that were followed so we welcome that. If that's what they do, they have that right. They have a lot of latitude there and they also have a lot of latitude with respect to getting additional medical opinion. As part of the collective bargaining agreement is that they have an ability to get additional opinions. I'd have to ask that specifically, but I'm sure if a medical advisor said not to do something, that would be followed.