Three former Oakland Raiders have promised their brains to the Concussion Legacy Foundation to honor Ken Stabler, whose brain showed degenerative damage after his death in 2015.
George Atkinson, George Buehler and Art Thoms told the San Jose Mercury News that they will give their brains after death to the Boston-based research center studying chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the disease being linked to repeated blows to the head.
Stabler, who died in July, suffered from Stage 3 CTE, the doctor who examined his brain told ESPN's Outside the Lines.
"He had very substantial lesions.