On Friday, former Detroit Lions linebacker DeAndre Levy met with democratic members of the House of Representatives to discuss traumatic football brain injuries in the NFL. The purpose of the House Judiciary Committee meeting was to discuss new research in the field and the current state of concussion awareness in the league.
Levy was one of a few former NFL players on the panel, along with medical professionals and brain specialists, to give their first-hand perspective on how players currently deal with brain-related injuries and the amount of knowledge they’re given from the league, specifically regarding the chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or what’s more commonly known as CTE.