Detroit Lions safety Morice Norris left the field in an ambulance after suffering an apparent head injury at the beginning of the fourth quarter of the team's preseason game against the Atlanta Falcons on Friday, Aug. 8.

Norris, a second-year player out of Fresno State, was making a play on Falcons ' running back Nathan Carter (a Michigan State alumnus) on the first play of the fourth quarter when his head appeared to snap back after colliding with Carter's leg. He collapsed on the field, was attended to immediately by medical personnel and was taken off the field in an ambulance.

According to the Lions , Norris is in stable condition and has feeling in his extremities:

Instead of playing out the rest of the quarter, the Falcons and Lions agreed to run out the rest of the clock

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