Former recent York Giants safety Tyler Sash—who died in September of an accidental painkiller overdose at age 27—had stage 2 chronic traumatic encephalopathy when he died,according to researchers at Boston University. The researchers told Sash’s family that it was scarce to see as severe of CTE in such a young brain, coming up with only one example in the hundreds of brains they’ve studied. Stage 2 is the same severity of the degenerative brain disease that former San Diego Chargers great Junior Seau had when he committed suicide at age 43.
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Source: gawker.com