CTE, Not Suicide, Claims Life Of NFL Player

A former NFL player died by suicide but it’s CTE that appears to have taken the man’s life. Jordan Devey died in July at just 38, a former Super Bowl champion with the New England Patriots. He took his own life after what his family says was the effect of chronic traumatic encephalopathy which is a progressive degenerative brain disease. He is survived by his wife and their four children. Devey, who was on the offensive line butting heads and keeping defenders away from QB Tom Brady, played a brutal sport that that has on one hand given many great things to people - a game to play, a career, a game celebrated every Sunday in homes across the US - and yet a game that takes its players lives from them. The suicide deaths by football players are mistakenly not the cause of death, it’s the circumstances around the person’s life in the years leading up to that. Devey's mother, Leslie, told a TV station in Salt Lake City that the family believed that he suffered from CTE but that they wouldn’t be able to test for the neurodegenerative disease based on the way Devey died.