Phillip Adams, a former NFL cornerback who was accused of shooting six people to death before killing himself in April, had "unusually severe" chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease associated with head trauma and concussions.
The results of Adams' brain examination were announced Tuesday by Dr. Anne McKee, a neuropathologist who serves as director of Boston University's CTE Center. She compared Adams' brain to the brain of Aaron Hernandez, the former New England Patriots player who took his own life in 2017 while serving a life sentence for murder. Hernandez was found to have Stage 3 CTE when his brain was examined after his death, with severe damage to the frontal lobes.