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How fears over CTE and football outpaced what researchers know

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A YEAR AGO, as more than 6,000 media representatives descended on Arizona for Super Bowl LVII, Boston University's Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center issued a news release with the headline: "Researchers find CTE in 345 of 376 former NFL players studied." It emphasized that two of the brains dissected in the previous year and found to have the neurodegenerative disease tied to football came from men who once played for the very teams that would be vying for the Lombardi Trophy, the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs.