Former NFL running back Kevin Turner, who is one of the lead plaintiffs in the NFL concussion lawsuit settlement, had an advanced form of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), according to a report from the New York Times.
Researchers at the Boston University CTE Center announced that Turner had the highest stage of the brain disorder.
Turner, who played eight seasons with the New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles, died in March at the age of 46 from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.
“The severity of Mr. Turner’s C.T.E. was extraordinary and unprecedented for an athlete who died in his 40s,” Ann McKee, a professor of neurology and pathology at the Boston University School of Medicine and the director of the C.