Former NFL players Kevin Henry and Najeh Davenport filed a federal lawsuit alleging racial discrimination in the NFL's concussion settlement, according to the Wall Street Journal's Louise Radnofsky and Andrew Beaton.
The lawsuit alleges some Black players have been unable to receive financial compensation due to "an evaluation process that assumed they had lower cognitive functioning when healthy than white players."
"The players say the NFL has been paying head-injury claims under the settlement, which took effect in 2017, using a formula that 'explicitly and deliberately discriminates on the basis of race,'" Radnofsky and Beaton wrote.