Lawyers have filed a new lawsuit against the NFL as well as helmet maker Riddell on behalf of former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez.
According to the Associated Press (via Boston.com), the lawsuit claims the league hid the true dangers of football.
Hernandez took his own life in prison while serving a life sentence for murder, but an autopsy revealed that he had been suffering from CTE.
Doctors reported Hernandez was in stage three out of four of the degenerative brain disease.
"We're told it was the most severe case they had ever seen for someone of Aaron's age," his lawyer Jose Baez said, per the AP's Jimmy Golen.