The extremely low population rate of CTE is in line with similar studies from brain banks in Austria, Australia and Brazil. "The NFL player data should not be interpreted to suggest that 91.7 percent ...

Families of deceased NFL players pushed an appeals court to reverse a federal court's decision that they must dig up and ...

Despite the settled lawsuit, Lothamer-Welch feels that the NFL is doing little for players diagnosed with ... medical care and then died, only to have CTE confirmed via autopsy." ...

Hundreds of players have been posthumously diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a brain disease that has been linked to football. As these issues continued, the NFL agreed to ...

While the study notes it “should not be interpreted to suggest that 91.7 percent of all current and former NFL players have CTE (since) brain bank samples are subject to selection biases ...

An curved arrow pointing right. A new study released by the department of Veterans Affairs and Boston University found that 87 of 91 deceased NFL players who were tested were found to have the ...

which greatly impacted Wycheck's life and has been diagnosed in 345 of the 376 NFL players studied by Boston University's CTE center as of February 2023. "My father put his body on the line ...

Former Tennessee Titans star Frank Wycheck was suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) at the time of his death. Wycheck, a three-time Pro Bowler, died 13 months ago after falling ...

A previous version of this story included the incorrect year that Wycheck died. He died on Dec. 9, 2023. If you're a fan of the sport of football this is an amazing time. Five consecutive days of ...

If you're a fan of the sport of football this is an amazing time. Five consecutive days of college and NFL playoffs started on Thursday and go through Monday night. There's probably never been a ...