Percy Harvin collapses, taken to hospital in ambulance
Wide receiver Percy Harvin collapsed on the field at the Minnesota Vikings' practice Thursday and was taken to a hospital in an ambulance, according to reports.
Harvin has suffered from severe migraine headaches since childhood.
According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Harvin suffered a migraine earlier Thursday.
"I don't know how to classify" the episode, Vikings Coach Brad Childress said, according to the Star Tribune. "Not really a seizure, but he had some trouble over here. I'd be remiss if I tried to qualify it one way or the other. He seemed like he was stable. Shugs [head athletic trainer Eric Sugarman], Dr. [Sheldon] Burns and Dr. [Chris] Larson were all with him right there and Shugs and Dr. Burns rode to the hospital with him...Those things [migraines] can be debilitating and obviously that one hit and hit hard. It's always scary for all of our guys when you see a teammate struggling with whatever. We said a quick prayer for him."
Harvin was not participating in the practice. According to reports, he was standing on the field watching practice when he vomited and then fell to the ground.
Harvin, a first-round draft choice by the Vikings out of the University of Florida, was named the NFL's offensive rookie of the year last season.
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Mark my words, Percy Harvin is gonna be just like that monkey in Outbreak and he will be patient zero to the biggest epidemic of Hantavirus this side of the Congo and then Rene Russo and Dustin Hoffman will be chasing him around the field with a net so they can manufacture a cure...