Ken Stabler’s CTE Diagnosis Prompts Former Raiders to Donate Brains for Research

March 26, 2016   ·   Tim Daniels   ·   Jump to comments

Former Oakland Raiders George Atkinson, George Buehler and Art Thoms said Friday they will donate their brains to the Concussion Legacy Foundation in honor of friend and former Raiders quarterback Ken Stabler.
Elliott Almond of the San Jose Mercury News passed along word of the players' decision, which they hope can shed more light on chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
"You want to do something," Thoms said. "You can donate money, but even more is to donate the brain to help others in the future. I won't need it anymore once I'm gone."
John Branch of the New York Times reported Stabler's brain was researched following his death last July. Researchers determined he had high Stage 3 CTE, which is believed to develop from repeated hits to the head and can only currently be diagnosed after death.
"When you see your teammate deteriorate a lot through the end of his life, to see him go out like that, it brings us together," Thoms told the Mercury News.
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