If you are conscious of the history of concussions and concussion research in professional sports, then the name of Dr. Bennet Omalu will probably sound familiar to you. It should if you are a fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers. He is the one who discovered chronic traumatic encephalopathy in the brain of former Steelers center Mike Webster in 2002.
Over the course of the past 15 years since that discovery, the NFL has been under fire about what it knew and when it knew it about the links between football and concussions and its links to CTE.