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Watch: Outrage after quarterback re-enters game minutes after massive hit leaves him visibly shaking on NFL turf

December 11, 2017

Controversy has erupted from this morning's NFL match between the Houston Texans and San Francisco 49ers after a quarterback was allowed to re-enter the game despite taking a serious head knock that left him visibly shaking minutes before.

Tom Savage was injured when he was driven to the ground on a hit by Elvis Dumervil with about nine minutes left in the second quarter.

Replays showed Savage looking dazed after his head hit the ground with both of his arms lifted upward and shaking.

He was taken to the medical tent where he stayed for less than three minutes before returning to the bench and going back in for the Texans' next set of offence. He threw two incompletions on that drive, and Houston's team doctor approached him after he returned to the sideline after that possession.

Savage tried repeatedly to enter the game on the next series, but a team official kept grabbing Savage’s jersey and finally his arm and pulled him away from the field.

He then could be seen arguing with that person and the team's trainer before being escorted to the locker room.

During and after the game, reporters and fans scolded the Texans for allowing Savage to return to the field in the first place, especially after he was officially diagnosed with a concussion after the match.

Chris Nowinski, the founding CEO of the Concussion Legacy Foundation and co-director of Boston University's Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, couldn't believe the Texans' medical staff.

"No one is punished. We pretend it didn't happen. The docs are supposed protect these men from severe brain injury & death.," he tweeted after the match.

The 49ers eventually won the match 26-16.

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