Dallas Cowboys Player Marshawn Kneeland Diagnosed with Brain Disease After Death
Marshawn Kneeland, a defensive lineman for the Dallas Cowboys who died by suicide in November at age 24, has been diagnosed with stage 1 chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), according to postmortem analysis conducted by Boston University's CTE Center. The diagnosis provides a medical framework for understanding neurological struggles the athlete may have faced, though researchers emphasize CTE cannot be identified during life and can only be confirmed through brain tissue examination after de…
