The cause of Seahawks Hall-of-Fame defensive lineman Cortez Kennedy’s death was congestive heart failure from heart disease and his brain has been sent for study by the Boston University School of Medicine’s CTE research center, according to an autopsy report from Florida where he died last May.
The report released Tuesday morning by the Office of the Orange County Medical Examiner in Orlando to The News Tribune states the official cause of Kennedy’s death at the age of 48 as “congestive heart failure, due to hypertensive heart disease, with organizing pneumonia and diabetes mellitus as contributing factors.