2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
The family of former NFL player Aaron Hernandez, who committed suicide on April 19 when he was 27, will file a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the NFL and the New England Patriots, after learning that a common brain injury was happening to players in football.
According to People, José Baez, a lawyer for the Hernández family, after the death of the player, the authorities performed an autopsy and turned his brain over to the Center for Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy at Boston University, an institution that he has been investigating for for several years the relationship between football and traumatic brain injury and its link to football. The results indicated that the New England Patriotic tight end suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
CTE is a degenerative brain disease that has been linked to head trauma and has been found in dozens of former NFL players. Hollywood brought the issue to the big screen through the movie Concussion.
In July, researchers from Boston University published a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association that claimed that CTE was detected in 99% of the brains acquired from National Football League players. Some have warned that the findings may not be credible because the brains were released by relatives of those players who showed possible symptoms of the disease.
CTE cannot be diagnosed in living subjects; it is only discovered during the autopsy. Several former NFL players, including Junior Seau and now Aaron Hernández, were diagnosed with the disease after their suicide.
"We got the results again and found that not only did he have a CTE, but it was the most serious case they have seen in a footballer his age," Baez told that newspaper. "There are four stages of CTE, and Aaron was stage 3 at age 27."
When he committed suicide, the famous athlete was serving a life sentence for the murder of Odin Lloyd, boyfriend of his fiancée's sister, in 2013. Hernández's family believes that the illness he suffered could have contributed to some of his strange behaviors.
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