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A landmark study shows an overwhelming majority of pro football players who died in a 15-year span had signs of CTE.

Researchers at Boston University, Mass General Brigham, and the Concussion and CTE Foundation led the study.

The 75% figure is the highest found to date.

The NFL's response is that it continuously strives to make the game of football safer.

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A landmark study shows an overwhelming majority of pro football players who died in a 15-year span had signs of CTE.

Researchers at Boston University, Mass General Brigham, and the Concussion and CTE Foundation led the study.

The 75% figure is the highest found to date.

and people who continue to play football, knowing what we know about football, if they continue to do it, if they continue to play, It's fair to say that, look, you kind of know what you're in for.

So when you see 75% of former NFL players who died from 2008 to 2023 at CT for 2023 at CT, first of all, I'd like to know, like, is that literally 75% of every player or is it 75% of five people whose brains you examine too? A new study from JAMA Network opened by researchers at Boston University, Mass General Brigham, and the Concussion and CTE Foundation has found that an estimated 75% of former NFL players who died between 2008 and 2023 had CTE.

Many cases may have had an early stage at the time of death and possibly symptom-free.

The observation speaks to one of the basic realities of CTE.

nearly 75% of deceased former NFL players estimated to have had CTE of players who died between 2008 and 2023.

Now, this was a study published on October 28th in the JAMA Network Open involving researchers from Boston University, Mass General Brigham, and the Concussion and CTE Foundation.

There were...

some 2,362 deceased former NFL players in the population that were studied.

A landmark study shows an overwhelming majority of pro football players who died in a 15-year span had signs of CTE.

Researchers at Boston University, Mass General Brigham, and the Concussion and CTE Foundation led a new study.

The major finding is that 75% of pro football players who died between 2008 and 2023 had markers for the degenerative brain disease.

The study, published this week in JAMA Network, looked at more than 2,300 athletes.

A landmark study shows an overwhelming majority of pro football players who died in a 15-year span had signs of CTE.

Researchers at Boston University, Mass General Brigham, and the Concussion and CTE Foundation led a new study.

The major finding is that 75% of pro football players who died between 2008 and 2023 had markers for the degenerative brain disease.

The study published this week in JAMA Network looked at more than 2,300 athletes.

He says he eats a diet heavy in fish and omega-3.

glasses that block blue light, and he never gets less than eight hours of sleep, right? And he's a 28-year-old Minnesota Vikings guard in his sixth NFL season, and he was 17 years old when the movie Concussion was released in 2015 and 18 when NFL executive Jeff Miller sat in front of Congress to talk about CTE.

And he says, your football life is short, he told ESPN, and then you've got the rest of your life to live.

And researchers believe CTA is caused by, as we've talked about many times, repeated subconcussive hits to the head.

And so the fact that this league has done such a terrible job of actually protecting its players as opposed to just paying lip service to it, it's terrible.

I mean, we've all forgotten the movie Concussion now, right? With Will Smith saying, tell the truth.

But it's true.

This is a dangerous sport.