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Aformer redshirt freshman offensive lineman has settled hislawsuitagainstBowling Green State University in which he accusedcoaches and medical staff of not holding him out of full-contactpractices after hesufferedmultiple concu sions that have Blank Jersey led to a permanent brain injury, .Cody Silk, who was onthe Bowling Greenfootball team in 2010, will receive $712,500 from the school.MORE: In his suit, Silksaidthe failure to diagnosetwo concu sions led him to participate in full-contact practices until he sustained a third concu sion. It was only at that point that team doctors medically disqualified him from playing at Bowling Green, which is a memberof the Mid-American Conference and whose football coachat the timewas Kole Calhoun Jersey Dave Clawson, now at Wake Forest..Silk first sued Bowling Green in2012, and the sides have gone back and forth inthe Ohio Court of Claims.According to Court News Ohio, in preparation for trial, Silk was evaluated by two doctors.Dr. Robert Chris Young Jersey Cantu co-director at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy at Boston University and senior advisor to the NFLs Head, Neck, and Spine Committee testified in a deposition that Silk likely suffered permanent post-concu sion syndrome as a Justin Bour Jersey result of Bowling Green's actions.However, Dr. Michael Collins director of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centers Sports Medicine Concu sion Program and consultant to several profe sional sports teams, including the NFL's Steelers found that Silk was exaggerating his symptoms, over-reporting symptomsand deliberately underperforming on tests that Brandon Phillips Jersey evaluate cognitive functions.In the end, the parties agreed to settle instead of moving forward with a trial.As part of the settlement, Silk agreed to not bring any future claims against the university, and the schooldidn't admit it wasat fault for his injuries.