Football star Demaryius Thomas, who played for the Denver Broncos during their 2015 Super Bowl win, was diagnosed posthumously with chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE, which is linked to repeated blows to the head.
If you don’t know, the star wide receiver passed away in December 2019 at the young age of 33. Click inside to read more… Doctors from Boston University had been studying the former NFL star’s brain after his tragic death last year.
His cause of death, while not made official at this time, seems to be from a seizure. Demaryius apparently began experiencing seizures after a 2019 car accident.
Neuropathologist Dr. Ann McKee, who was part of the team studying the football star’s brain, emphasized that CTE was not his cause of death. “CTE itself does not cause death.
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