News: Marshawn Kneeland Had Stage 1 CTE

[TheMarathonContinues]

CTE is a known risk of playing football. Who in the league now can honestly say they are unaware of the risk?

They don’t think it’s risk. The only ones being effected in their eyes are old guys born in the 60s or the young men who have met their demise.

My cousin just transferred to Mississippi st she got a nil deal for 600k. They aren’t thinking about CTE.

 

[LouBrown]

Hundreds of times?

Yes, possibly thousands.

• Players received up to 1444 head impacts in 1 season, with an average of 6.3 impacts per practice and 14.3 impacts per game

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2978006/

 

[NoLuv4Jerry]

Yeah but no one knew. He was in therapy. I can’t place blame on anyone here. Just unfortunate.

So NFL teams are not privy to potential draft picks being suicidal prior to the draft?

 

[LouBrown]

Yeah I kind of hate it, but if it actually helped I would completely understand banning organized tackle football until high-school.

Its tough though because they wont find data to support such measures until they find alternate ways of testing.

I don't think they really need to evaluate youth football based on CTE. It's not hard to track head trauma, in general.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Put more money into CTE research and less into Breast Cancer. Make that the new NFL charity priority.

Why does breast cancer research have to take a backseat to CTE research? As if there’s only room for one.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

So NFL teams are not privy to potential draft picks being suicidal prior to the draft?

I’m sure they are but I mean how do you know? If someone is suicidal they have already committed the act.

With Kneeland from everything I’ve seen he was known as a good kid who lost his mom prior to getting drafted. Known for smiling and being happy.

We live in a world where Robin Williams died by suicide. The man who built a 40 year career of making us happy and laugh was suffering in silence.

We try to be aware and look for signs but most times there aren’t any:

 

[Pass2Run]

It also makes me wonder how many of us "normal" people have some form of cte. I mean we all grew up playing sports and many of us have physical type jobs etc. Im sure ive been concussed 2 or 3 times. Just curious as to how common it actually is or isnt.

When I was playing, it was common to butt heads during drills. Actually, that was a drill. Terrible for a young kid. And other helmet to helmet contact was kinda expected, as far back as pee wee..

 

[Pass2Run]

I mean, which researchers? There's no way this guy went inside of a porta potty to kill himself. The porta potty is a place where you'd find evidence so contaminated you couldn't use any of it really.

CTE is real. But this was likely something different IMO.

 

[starfrombirth]

That's a very disturbing number. Nearly half of those who died before 30? But that's the risk players are willing to take to play contact sports. Until there is a way of diagnosing CTE or reducing the number of impactful contacts to the head this trend will likely continue.

It's not just the blows to the head. It's also the sudden, full body stops that cause the brain to slosh around in it's tank. I'm not sure what the solution would be other than to continue along the track they are on at the moment, but too much more legislation and it won't be football anymore.

 

[JoeKing]

CTE prevention starts the day a player straps on a helmet for the first time, even if that's Peewee league. Coaches teaching proper techniques in tackling is the front line of prevention. Enforcing proper technique will save lives. Even then, considering the violent nature of the game, not all CTE cases are preventable.

RIP Marshawn.

 

[erod]

No it doesn't.



https://www.bumc.bu.edu/camed/2023/...cte-in-345-of-376-former-nfl-players-studied/

Women, no. Men, yes.

Don't want to take the risk? Nobody is forcing you to.

There is no way to prevent it in football unless you figure out how to put a helmet INSIDE the skull.

 

[Hawkeye0202]

Not sure why some of you who are so outraged even follow a sport you find so dangerous and morally bankrupt.

I get this, but the violence is what makes football America's No.1 sport.

 

[shabazz]

Women

figure out how to put a helmet INSIDE the skull.

This is my biggest message and campaign slogan in 2026.

 

[jrumann59]

It also makes me wonder how many of us "normal" people have some form of cte. I mean we all grew up playing sports and many of us have physical type jobs etc. Im sure ive been concussed 2 or 3 times. Just curious as to how common it actually is or isnt.

Think about amusement parks in general between bumper cars/boats, roller coasters. I think most people have at least some low level CTE just from life.

 

[Vtwin]

They don’t think it’s risk. The only ones being effected in their eyes are old guys born in the 60s or the young men who have met their demise.

My cousin just transferred to Mississippi st she got a nil deal for 600k. They aren’t thinking about CTE.

That may be true but it ultimately is on them for ignoring the significant efforts to bring awareness.

Ignorance can no longer be used as an excuse.

 

[LouBrown]

Think about amusement parks in general between bumper cars/boats, roller coasters. I think most people have at least some low level CTE just from life.

I mean who is going on bumper cards hundreds of times a year? Again, this has been studied. It is a small percentage of the population that has CTE.

For comparison, a 2018 Boston University study of 164 brains of men and women donated to the Framingham Heart Study found that only 1 of 164 (0.6 percent) had CTE. The lone CTE case was a former college football player. The extremely low population rate of CTE is in line with similar studies from brain banks in Austria, Australia and Brazil.

https://www.bumc.bu.edu/camed/2023/...cte-in-345-of-376-former-nfl-players-studied/

People who played contact sports were more likely to have signs of CTE. Nine percent of athletes had evidence of CTE, compared with just over 3% of nonathletes.

https://www.science.org/content/art...ou-could-develop-signs-traumatic-brain-injury

 

[jrumann59]

I don't think they really need to evaluate youth football based on CTE. It's not hard to track head trauma, in general.

now. 20 years ago unless you saw the sideline doctor getting your bell rung was getting your bell rung. As a player you did not voluntarily talk to the trainer unless you were really hurt and laying on the grass.

 

[LouBrown]

now. 20 years ago unless you saw the sideline doctor getting your bell rung was getting your bell rung. As a player you did not voluntarily talk to the trainer unless you were really hurt and laying on the grass.

They tracked subconcussive hits to the head in 2007.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2978006/

Not debating the point about players not reporting it, but the tracking ability - even if imperfect - has long been available. It's not that different than studying helmet technology.

 

[gtb1943]

Why does breast cancer research have to take a backseat to CTE research? As if there’s only room for one.

because so much other funding goes there and more is needed for CTE
Do you get that now?

 

[Vtwin]

now. 20 years ago unless you saw the sideline doctor getting your bell rung was getting your bell rung. As a player you did not voluntarily talk to the trainer unless you were really hurt and laying on the grass.

The trainer would bring smelling salts out and wave them in front of your nose to get you on your feet and back in the game.