The ongoing discussion of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in football players continued Tuesday when a study concluded that 110 of 111 brains of former NFL players had the debilitating disease — including three former Miami Dolphins.
Tight end Frank Wainright, linebacker Junior Seau and cornerback Robert Sowell were all part of the updated study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The families of 202 brains of deceased football players from the NFL, college and high school were donated to the study done by Boston University School of Medicine and the VA Boston Healthcare System, with 99 percent of those brains exhibiting signs of CTE, and 87 percent of them diagnosed with CTE.