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Following up on the
ongoing story. ... Nate Burleson had a message for teammate Best, who hasn't played a down since October 2011 because of multiple concussions, on Monday's "NFL Total Access." "I just told him that, if it was me, I would shut it down," Burleson said. "You've got so much more life to live, and even though I would love to have you on the field, I don't want it to risk anything that has to do with your brain or possibly your post-career."
Reported by the Detroit Free Press
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Burleson went on to explain that concerns over the Best's health should be more important than trying to resurrect the 2010 first-round pick's career, which has only lasted 22 games. "I spoke to him last season. Jahvid could have easily been one of the best running backs to put on a Lions jersey," Burleson said. "He's that type of player. The reason I'm talking in past tense is because he's going through a different type of concussion. He didn't have a ton of them, but the ones that he did have, they were really powerful. ... And just being a guy that loves him as an individual vs. him, as a player, I just told him, 'Honestly, I'd rather see you healthy at 65 than healthy at 25. ...'" Best refused to discuss retirement halfway through the 2012 season, telling the Free Press he'd been "working out like an animal." Yet as the year went on, no doctor would clear him to return to the NFL. Don't bet on that changing.
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