TAMPA, Fla. -- Former NFL receiver Vincent Jackson may have died in his Florida hotel room up to three days before being pronounced dead there, according to new information released by the Hillsborough County Medical Examiner on Thursday.
Jackson, the former Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Los Angeles Chargers wide receiver, was found dead in a Brandon, Florida hotel room on Monday. He was 38.
The new details released by the medical examiner's office Thursday came on the same day a Jackson family spokesperson confirmed to ESPN that it donated his brain to Boston University's CTE Center in an effort to learn more from his death.