Brain Scientist: Football and CTE Are NOT Linked

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(09-19-2017, 04:42 PM)sonofstat Wrote: I'm no brain surgeon    but i would think any activity which involves 300lb+ men repeatedly using their skulls to force violent collisions is not gonna end well for some players further down the line.

I'm no CTE specialist, but I'd think that 300+ linemen are less-likely to get CTE than running backs or linebackers (or maybe even receivers) because they typically line up so close to the people that they're blocking that there's no room to get enough speed to make a collision that would rattle the brain.  I'm sure it can't be healthy, but it just seems like a linebacker that has a few yards head-start would cause it more to a running back with a few yards head-start colliding at the line.

Then again, sometimes linemen do block linebackers and, even if they didn't, the fact that they have contact every play, even if minor, would make the frequency more apt to cause problems down the line, even if not CTE.