One of the NFL's most influential agents for years, Leigh Steinberg is now aiming to support emerging approaches for head ...

The NFL has to be feeling good about the work it's done to help curb the rate of concussions for its players, but the work is ...

It was before the discovery of CTE. Before a class-action lawsuit was filed by former players against the NFL in 2012, which led to a $1 billion settlement in 2015. Before the NFL Players ...

Because it can only be diagnosed with an autopsy, the neurodegenerative disease is difficult to pin in cases of professional ...

Families of deceased NFL players pushed an appeals court to reverse a federal court's decision that they must dig up and diagnose the players with CTE to qualify for the NFL's concussion settlement.

Things like broken ankles and torn ACLs happen and they are terrible for the individual players, but more than anything, the ...

A 2017 study by Boston University studied the brains of 202 deceased football players; nearly all showed signs of CTE. Wycheck played 11 NFL seasons for Washington and the Houston/Tennessee ...

A 2017 study conducted by the Boston University CTE Center concluded that the brains of 99% of former NFL players had at least trace amounts of the neurodegenerative disease. Researchers studied ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with ESPN reporter Mark Fainaru-Wada about the controversy over the hall of fame eligibility of Jim Tyrer, a great player who also committed a terrible crime.