The NFL’s chief medical officer, Allen Sills, MD, said this week that he sees the league’s rising concussion numbers as a “a call to action.”

Sills was speaking at a Head, Nick and Spine committee meeting, per a report from ESPN. A select number of reporters were allowed in the meeting.

“It's not OK to simply stand behind that and say, 'Well, the numbers are going up because we're doing a better job,’” Sills said, as quoted in the report. “I think to me this is really a call to action to see what we can do to drive it down.”

At the same meeting, players received a 107-page “medical playbook” that includes information about concussion prevention, concussion detection and other health-related topics.

There were 291 concussions during the 2017 NFL season, up from 250 during the 2016 season, per the ESPN report. This averages out to approximately 0.7 concussions per game.

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