Now, obviously it wasn't the immediate cause of death (jumping/falling out of the truck was), but it's likely that his moods and actions were a result of it.Chris Henry, the Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver who died in a traffic accident last year, had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) -- a form of degenerative brain damage caused by multiple hits to the head -- at the time of his death, according to scientists at the Brain Injury Research Institute, a research center affiliated with West Virginia University.
I'm interested to see what the NFL and Goodell says, they put out the front of being proactive, but basically only listen to doctors on their own payroll and dismiss anything else. They just finally started to come around lately.