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Full article: N.F.L. Agrees to Settle Concussion Suit for $765 Million

This past summer the National Football League has agreed to settle the lawsuit with over 4,500 former players and pay a total of 765 million dollars to each of these players and their families. This lawsuit brought to the NFL by all of these former players was about dozens of former players who were found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. CTE is a degenerative brain disease that is caused only by repeated head trauma. The money the players received from the lawsuit will go mostly toward medical care. Some people feel that the players should have received more money, the NFL makes 10 billion dollars annually. Players diagnosed with CTE such as former Eagles defensive back Andre Waters,  linebacker Junior Seau, and a former Chicago Bears player Dave Duerson have all committed suicide as a result of CTE. The NFL denies knowing that participating in the sport would lead to brain issues such as CTE but 4,500 players feel that the NFL knew and kept that information from them. The players got their money but in the big picture the NFL won because it wasn’t a large amount compared to the 10 billion dollars the NFL makes a year.

– Marco Venezia