The Demaryius Thomas story could make parents think twice about letting their kids play football. Here's why.
The medical examiner in Fulton County, Georgia, where Thomas died, has. But Concussion Legacy Foundation CEO and co-founder Dr. Chris Nowinski hopes that word of Thomas's condition will serve as"a wake-up call to high-profile current and former NFL players that CTE is rampant among them, and they need to get involved in creating real solutions. CTE should be their number-one off-the-field issue.
in Boulder's Eben G. Fine Park in December 2016, six years to the month before Thomas died. For religious reasons, Salaam's brain wasn't examined for CTE; according to his brother, however, he had exhibited symptoms of the disease before taking his life. Stories like Salaam's and that of NFL star-turned-convicted-killer Aaron Henandez, whose 2017 autopsy uncovered evidence of advanced CTE even though he was only 27, appear to have had an effect on football participation. Just shy of a year after Salaam died, Roger Pielke, Jr., director of CU Boulder's Sports Governance Center, releasedon a year-over-year basis.
Currently, CTE can only be confirmed after an individual's death — and as a result, no one knows for certain if the condition is responsible for personality changes among former players. Justin Bannan, a CU Buffs standout who went on to play for the Broncos, is a case in point: In October 2019, he was arrested in Boulder after a bizarre incident during which he.
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