Su’a Cravens Comments on Potential Concussion, CTE Risk in NFL

March 24, 2016   ·   Matt Fitzgerald   ·   Jump to comments

For the first time ever on March 15, the NFL admitted to a link between football and the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, per ESPN.com's Steve Fainaru. Former USC linebacker and safety Su'a Cravens believes the risk of CTE is part of the job description.    
Cravens is about to enter the league through the 2016 draft and spoke after USC's pro day on Wednesday about CTE and concussions in the violent sport, per ESPN.com's Kyle Bonagura:
I know I'm going to the game where I'm going to hit and sometimes you're going to use your head to hit and you might get a concussion. That's what we sign up for. I saw that the NFL passed that they’re not going to be paying any more lawsuits on CTE from now on. So if that's the case, let's take helmet-to-helmet penalties out. If we know we're signing up for that, let's play. That's how I look at it.
Although the 20-year-old played against top-flight college competition on the gridir...

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