TAMPA, Fla. - Earlier this year, the family of the former Tampa Bay Buccaneers player Vincent Jackson donated his brain to scientists to understand what may have led up to his death in February.
On Thursday, they revealed he was battling stage 2 CTE.For years, he suffered from memory loss, erratic behavior, and was relying on alcohol, his wife, Lindsay, revealed during an interview with ABC News."He shared with me once that alcohol made him feel calm," she explained, "and made him feel like himself and that his brain was really fuzzy and this made it not fuzzy."The family said they wanted to publicly release the findings of his brain study to help raise awareness for CTE and risks.Deputies are investigating the death of former Tampa Bay.