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Nearly 1 in 4 NFL Players Who Died Had CTE, New Study Finds

Researchers found CTE in 24.5% of deceased NFL players overall and in 93% of the former players whose brains were donated for study.

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Be fortunate that you more than likely do not have to be tackled by a 300-pound lineman at full speed to earn your paycheck; otherwise, it would be severely damaging your brain. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, as we more commonly refer to it, is a degenerative brain disease associated with repeated head trauma. A new damning study reported by the New York Times and published in the British Medical Journal found that at least 24.5 percent of NFL players who died........

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