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With the NFL’s new heightened awareness for concussions and the measures they’ve taken to correctly report and address them, more NFL players SHOULD have concussions on their resumes. And that, as a result, should level out the pool of players teams are looking at in free agency, minimizing the effect of the concussions on the players’ bottom lines.

Furthermore, the NFL is the United States’ most popular sport by a long shot. Don’t parents want to see the players that America’s kids watch every Sunday do the right thing and be proper role models?

If these players want to live better lives, and our youth want to be better football players by knowing the dangers of concussions earlier on, the men of the National Football League need to do the right thing and report any head injury right after it happens.

Because as Chelsea’s story and so many others unfortunately show, concussions can have a devastating and permanent impact on someone’s life, and all of us need to do a better job of addressing them now.

Jeremy Schilling can be followed on Twitter at @JSchil.