Researchers at Boston University have requested to study the brain of former NFFL player Adam Philips, who recently killed five people including himself, according to <a href="https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/31223923/brain-phillip-adams-former-nfl-player-killed-five-examined-cte" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>The Associated Press</em></a> .
The York County Coroner’s office reached out to Boston University for the purpose of studying Adams’ brain to investigate if he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), coroner Sabrina Gast said in a statement. CTE is a degenerative brain disease found in athletes linked to repeated head traumas.
Adams’ father did <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw2tcbMy25A">speak publicly</a> about his son, claiming, that “football messed him up.”