Study finds former NFL players die from ALS before age 50 at alarmingly high rates

The news that 39-year-old former NFL running back Chris Johnson has ALS has reignited the discussion about the risks of ...

NFL Study Finds Players Face Nearly 4x Higher Brain Disease Death Risk

Days after Marshawn Kneeland's posthumous CTE diagnosis, a new NFL study found players face nearly 4x higher brain disease ...

Study: NFL players more likely to die from brain diseases like dementia

Studies show people who repeatedly suffer brain impacts are more likely to experience degenerative brain diseases like CTE, ...

Dallas Cowboys player who died by suicide diagnosed with brain disease

Marshawn Kneeland had early chronic traumatic encephalopathy, which is caused by head impacts and has been found in hundreds ...

Former Michigan star quarterback, NFL player dies at 89

Former Michigan quarterback Bob Ptacek, who was the MVP for the Wolverines as a senior in 1958, has died. He was 89. Ptacek ...

CTE and the NFL: Players whose deaths have been linked to the disease

Marshawn Kneeland's family chose to reveal he had CTE to help raise awareness of the issues athletes in contact sports may ...

Marshawn Kneeland, Cowboys player who died by suicide at 24, diagnosed with CTE

Marshawn Kneeland's family said his posthumous CTE diagnosis provides "important context." Kneeland died by suicide at 24 years old in November 2025.

NFL players 4x more likely to die due to neurodegenerative disease

Football has long sold a contradiction: elite strength, elite conditioning, elite survival. But beneath that picture, a much darker pattern has kept surfacing.

Steve Zabel, throwback two-way player, dies at 78

Steve Zabel, a tight end and pass rusher who was Oklahoma's last two-way player and then played both positions in the NFL, has died at the age of 78.

NFL players 4 times more likely to die of neurodegenerative disease, new study finds

A new study reviewed health data from 19,824 football players who participated in at least one game between 1960 and 2019.
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NFL players have higher rates of neurodegenerative disease-caused mortality

Mass General Brigham, Boston University, and the Concussion & CTE Foundation cohort study of nearly 20,000 NFL players ...

Former Dallas Cowboys player Marshawn Kneeland had CTE when he died

Former Dallas Cowboys defensive end Marshawn Kneeland, who died by suicide in November 2025 after a high-speed chase with ...