Cedric Benson can't count any higher than 3

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(02-22-2017, 02:55 PM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: There is plenty of police activity with both MLB and NBA players. Football players seem to get more press too. 90 players in training camp for 32 teams is a lot. 

Some people have mental illness too. When you take that big of a population there will be some legit mental illness issues in there somewhere. 

Won't try to deny CTE. But boxers and MMA fighters should be worse than anyone. 

It seems to me the NFL has more of a prescription drug problem than the others too.

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2017/01/09/former-nfler-says-painkiller-addiction-led-to-125-vicodin-day-during-career.html

Ridiculous amounts of opioids probably aren't good for your brain either. 

It's not just "police activity". It's dudes suddenly walking about naked breaking into random houses, exposing themselves in Church etc. Mental illness usually is evident by early 20's and almost always by early 30's. So I don't really buy that all these guys were just mentally ill. Some of them (Duerson *sp?*, Henry, etc) were confirmed to have CTE posthumously, and the behavior of these other examples are very similar.

Maybe boxers and UFC fighters should be worse, maybe not. They aren't wearing helmets and colliding at 20 mph each. Also, there aren't nearly as many prominent fighters, and UFC hasn't been around all that long. So awareness and examples may not be quite similar to the NFL yet.

I do know of one example in baseball. Ryan Freel was confirmed as having CTE and he also displayed the same behavior leading up to his suicide.