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Vikings' Murray says he recovered 'pretty quickly' from Week 1 concussion

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EAGAN, Minn. -- Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kyler Murray was "good pretty quickly" after suffering a scary concussion in Week 1, he said Thursday in his first public comments since the injury.

"Obviously with the protocol and everything like that, I had to go through it," Murray said of missing the Vikings' Week 2 game against the Chicago Bears. "It was just part of the process."

Murray was briefly motionless, with his body in a fencing posture, following what he acknowledged was an "awkward" slide at the end of a scramble on his 11th snap of the game. Two members of the Green Bay Packers' defense, defensive end Lukas Van Ness and safety Javon Bullard, converged on him as he hit the ground. Bullard was penalized for unnecessary roughness, but neither player was fined. Murray said the only other concussion of his career, in a 2015 game when he was a freshman at Texas A&M, also occurred at the end of a slide.

The Vikings are 2-0 behind backup Carson Wentz, but they always intended to get Murray back in the lineup whenever he was ready. Sunday, he'll face the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and quarterback Baker Mayfield, his former teammate at Oklahoma.