PHILADELPHIA — The NFL is standing behind a top executive's acknowledgement that the brain disease CTE can be linked to football.
The comments by Jeff Miller, the senior vice president for health and safety, "accurately reflect the view of the NFL," league spokesman Brian McCarthy said Tuesday. Miller spoke Monday at a congressional committee's roundtable discussion about concussions.
League officials have long denied proof of a connection between playing in the NFL and the condition called chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
Miller told the congressional panel that brain research on former NFL players "certainly" shows a link between football and CTE.