Former Lions running back Mel Farr, who retired from the NFL in 1973, had Stage 3 chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) when he died in 2015, according to Outside The Lines.
Congressional investigators have concluded that top NFL health officials waged an improper, behind-the-scenes campaign to influence a U.S. government research study on football and brain disease.
Baylor, required by federal law to immediately address allegations of sexual violence involving students, did not examine a sexual assault report made against two football players for two years.
Four Congress members have asked the NFL for information about why it attempted to intervene in the selection of a Boston University researcher to lead a study on football and brain disease.
Recent brain research appears to suggest CTE is prevalent among people who played any contact sport, not just former NFL players, whose diagnoses with CTE often dominate headlines.
The NFL, for the first time, acknowledged there is a link between football-related head trauma and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.
