What Detroit Lions QB Kyle Allen said after teammate left preseason game in ambulance

DETROIT – Detroit Lions quarterback Kyle Allen spoke briefly after his teammate, Morice Norris, left the preseason game against the Falcons in an ambulance.

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Norris appeared to take a hit to the helmet while making a tackle on the first play of the fourth quarter in Atlanta. He was down on the field for several minutes before an ambulance came and took him to a nearby hospital.

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“He’s breathing,” Lions head coach Dan Campbell said after the game. “He’s breathing, he’s talking. That’s good. He’s got some movement, and now they’re running more tests.”

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Allen, who is in his first year with the Lions, spoke after Campbell. You can read his comments below.

“Before we start: Obviously, praying for Mo,” Allen said. “It’s terrible. It’s a terrible game sometimes that we play to see something like that happen, and you don’t wish that upon anyone and it’s the risk, with football, is injury and going out there and laying your body on the line, but you don’t sign up for stuff like that, and it’s terrible, so everyone’s praying for Mo. From what we’ve heard, it’s positive things from how bad it was on the field, but it’s just terrible. You don’t wish that upon anybody.”

Allen was asked about both teams agreeing to run out the final 14+ minutes of the game. The NFL ultimately suspended it with about six minutes left on the clock, after the Falcons and Lions had run off more than eight minutes in one play.

“I don’t think anyone on that sideline wanted to play, you know?” Allen said. “We weren’t a part of the decision, but you could look in everyone’s eyes and see that it’s just -- it’s not worth it.

“I didn’t really see the hit. I mean, all the (athletic) trainers in a circle around him, and usually you see a couple of trainers out there, and it’s never good when they bring out the stretcher, and I think you just immediately start praying for him, hoping for the best, and I mean I still don’t know the whole gravity of the situation. I’m pretty sure people that watched it on TV probably know it better, but when it’s taking that long and there’s that many trainers and that many people around him, you just hope for the best, you know?

“I’m just kind of echoing what (Dan Campbell) is saying right now: It’s just, it’s just awful. It’s just like I said: You sign up for football and you understand the risks and injury and putting your body on the line, but you never think something like that’s going to happen, and I’m just praying for everybody in that locker room, too, who saw that and saw it going on, but most importantly, for Mo.

“I think anybody that’s put their body on the line understands what they’re doing and understands the gravity of it, and at the end of the day, we’re all out here, football players. We might be on 32 different teams, but we’ve all played football our whole lives and had injuries and been through it, and I think people, when you’re on that field and you see that, you understand how dangerous it really is out there, and at the end of the day, we’re all football players.”