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Jon Burnett, 70, was recently diagnosed with the disease, and he says he'll donate his brain to science when he dies to help find a cure. The long-running co-host of Evening Magazine and Pittsburgh Today on KDKA-TV played both fullback and defensive end football in Knoxville, Tennessee, beginning at the age of 10. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a degenerative brain disease characterized by repeated head blows, and it has been linked to high-impact sports like football and boxing.

Boston University researchers reported on Monday that they had found the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in 345 of 376 former NFL players they've studied, in another troubling sign for professional football. The 91.7 percent incidence rate, according to researchers at the CTE Center, who have been raising the alarm about the disease for years, is significantly different from the general population's, which is described as 'highly poor.' In 2018, the Framingham Heart Study found the only instance of CTE in 164 brain samples, and that sample came from a former college football player.

Charles Johnson, a former Pittsburgh Steeler and New England Patriot who died in July at the age of 50, died by suicide. According to the state medical examiner's office in North Carolina, Johnson, who eventually won a Super Bowl while with the Patriots, overdosed on opioids. via USA Today. On July 17, 2022, he was discovered dead in a hotel room near his Raleigh, North Carolina, after his wife reported the 50-year-old missing a day earlier.