Some sincerely scary news coming out of the Denver Broncos National Football League franchise, as defensive lineman Derek Wolfe is experiencing numbness in his neck due to an injury.

Wolfe went on the radio to discuss his visiting of multiple doctors trying to figure out what in the heck is going on.

“There’s not like one real answer to give right now because we need to run some more tests to really figure out what’s causing the numbness,” Wolfe said. “A stinger is a stinger, but when your face is going numb and then your quad is going numb, that’s when you have to make sure. Whenever the MRIs and everything, that’s all clear, that’s when you have to go check the nerves and find out what’s going on with the nerves and then you can reverse it.”

Here is Derek Wolfe discussing how he got injured.

“I got hit like right in the back of the head on the first play and my arm went numb on the first play against the Bengals and I was like ‘whatever, I’m just going to keep going.'” Wolfe said. “Ended up just going and trying to block it out but I paid for it all week last week and I had no feeling in my right hand most of the week. I had kind of a bruise on my hand so I just kept trying to make excuses because I don’t ever want to think ‘oh, something’s going on with my neck.’ But it’s not like a disc issue or a spinal cord issue, a brain stem issue. It’s nothing like life-threatening but it’s something that this isn’t a normal stinger that’s happening.

“The first play of this game (against Oakland) I got put in like a head lock and I was fine. I ripped off the block and he had his arm around my neck and I was trying to get him off me and I was fine. It was the next play, I go to jump and bat a ball and he punches me right in the facemask. And when he hit me in the facemask, it wasn’t even really that hard of a hit, it happens a lot. If you’re a D-lineman you know in the trenches you’re going to get hit in the face. It was nothing and boom my right arm… there was no pain either. It’s not painful. It was completely numb and you can’t use it.”

Scarily, Wolfe has dealt with neck issues for some time now. He's actually played through neck pain before and has literally experienced this same issues before.

“The last time that this was happening, I just kept going and it put me in the ICU and it almost killed me,” Wolfe said. “So for me, I’m not going to let it go on for 12 weeks, for the rest of the season. I’m not going to let it go on for five weeks and then crash at the end of the season and end up in the ICU again. Why don’t I jump on it now and make sure that the rest of my career I’m going to be OK.

“Sometimes these things happen when you’re getting hit in the head a lot it’s just something that comes with the game. You have to be ready for that, for when it comes, you just got to nip it in the bud. Unfortunately, I’ve had a few more than I’d like to deal with. I’m ready to get this thing fixed up and worry about my future.”

Someone, for real, let this dude get healthy before hurling him back on the field. His long-term health should be far more important than anything else.