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Team doctors have cleared Browns quarterback Colt McCoy to play in Sunday’s game against the Cardinals, saying that he is healthy enough to once again suffer concussions. The announcement comes just seven days after Pittsburgh’s James Harrison concussed him with a helmet-to-helmet hit, leaving him dazed on the Heinz Field turf.

The quarterback passed a series of tests on Thursday morning that place him within the limits of the new player safety rules, which the League has been strictly enforcing to safeguard players from suffering traumatic brain injuries until they’re ready.

“He is lucid, hardly drooling, and he can identify several shapes on a chart,” said Browns president Mike Holmgren during a press conference. “The swelling in his brain has gone down enough to where he could absorb at least three direct-to-skull high-velocity impacts in a single game without risk of coma or temporary retardation.”