Greg Clark, who played tight end for the 49ers from 1997 to 2001, is at least the 13th NFL player known to have had CTE when they killed themselves.

A coroner in South Carolina says the autopsy of a former NFL player who was accused of killing six people and then himself in April 2021 shows he had severe brain disease known as CTE.

NFL retirees who believe they have CTE are twice as likely to report frequent thoughts of suicide, even after accounting for symptoms of depression, researchers said.

Junior Seau, one of the NFL's best and fiercest players for nearly two decades, had a degenerative brain disease when he committed suicide last May, the National Institutes of Health told The ...

Former NFL linebacker Adrian Robinson, who committed suicide in May, was found have been suffering from the brain disease known as CTE, according to the Associated Press. CTE (chronic traumatic ...

More than 300 former NFL players have been posthumously diagnosed with CTE. Before their deaths, many had reportedly developed symptoms of cognitive decline, such as memory loss and mood swings.

Among former NFL athletes who volunteered to complete a questionnaire, 34.4% said they perceived they had CTE, according to Rachel Grashow, PhD, MS, of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public ...

The most common cause of death (27%) among those with mild stages of CTE (stages 1-2) was suicide. McKee had said previously that Hall of Fame linebacker Junior Seau, who took his own life in 2012 ...

An autopsy on Kansas City Chiefs player Jovan Belcher, who carried out murder-suicide, found signs of degenerative brain disease CTE Latest U.S.

NFL retirees who believe they have CTE are twice as likely to report frequent thoughts of suicide, even after accounting for symptoms of depression, researchers said.

The recent study that found CTE in the brains of 110 of 111 deceased NFL players presents a challenge to the durability of the league’s $1 billion concussion settlement with former players ...

Government research into a group of retired NFL players showed they had a lower suicide rate than men in the general population. The study also noted it contained significant shortcomings.