NFL Says CTE Link Comments Have ‘No Bearing’ on Concussion Settlement

March 16, 2016   ·   Scott Polacek   ·   Jump to comments

The link between football and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, continues to make news well into the NFL’s offseason, and the league made something of a backpedaling statement Tuesday.
According to Steve Fainaru of ESPN.com, the NFL’s senior vice president of health and safety policy, Jeff Miller, said Monday, “The answer to that question is certainly yes,” when asked if there was a connection between football and CTE. Up until then, a senior league official had never admitted there was an association between the two.
However, the NFL made sure to quickly state Miller’s remarks shouldn’t have an impact on its concussion settlement with former players.
According to Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk, attorney Paul Clement, who also represents the NFL in the Tom Brady appeal regarding the Deflategate scandal, told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Tuesday that Miller’s comments &...

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