Aaron Hernandez Found to Have Severe C.T.E.<br />Jose Baez, Hernandez’s lawyer, said Hernandez’s brain showed a level of damage that was seen in players with a median age of 67 years.<br />T.E., “but you don’t know.”<br />Hernandez’s brain was examined by Dr. Ann McKee, chief of neuropathology at the VA<br />Boston Healthcare System and director of the CTE Center at Boston University.<br />Researchers who examined the brain determined it was “the most severe case they had ever seen in someone<br />of Aaron’s age,” said a lawyer for Hernandez in announcing the result at a news conference on Thursday.<br />said, “We have not seen a copy of the suit and cannot comment at this time.”<br />Baez said that in hindsight, his family had witnessed Hernandez act in ways that were consistent with a person found to have C.<br />T.E., the degenerative brain disease linked to repeated head trauma that has been found in more than 100 former N. F.L.<br />The suit alleges that the Patriots and the league were “fully aware of the damage<br />that could be inflicted from repetitive impact injuries and failed to disclose, treat or protect him from the dangers of such damage.”<br />Baez said he did not rule out adding the N. C.A.
