Add Raiders Super Bowl-winning quarterback Ken Stabler to the growing list of NFL players who reportedly suffered from traumatic brain disease.
Stabler, who died in July from colon cancer, also had Stage 3 chronic traumatic encephalopathy (C.T.E.), according to a New York Times report published Wednesday.
“The day after Stabler died on July 8, a victim of colon cancer at age 69, his brain was removed during an autopsy and ferried to scientists in Massachusetts,” the Times wrote. “It weighed 1,318 grams, or just under three pounds. Over several months, it was dissected for clues, as Stabler had wished, to help those left behind understand why his mind seemed to slip so precipitously in his final years.