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NFL Is in for a Firestorm Over Hernandez's Severe CTE

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More than 100 former NFL players have been found to have had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the degenerative brain disease associated with repeated knocks to the head. One might think, then, that Aaron Hernandez's case of CTE is just another one. Not so. Hernandez's diagnosis "will shake the NFL to its core. 

As it should," writes columnist Nancy Armour at USA Today. Since CTE can only be diagnosed after death, most cases have been found in football veterans beyond middle age, reports Sports Illustrated. The NFL has therefore brushed off links between football and CTE, arguing too many other factors could've played a role. It can't do that with Hernandez, who played 38 games for the New England Patriots and whose case was surprisingly severe for a man of 27, Armour writes.

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