Except you can’t diagnose it while they’re alive. But in the long run if and when we CAN as you yourself point out then we’d know they have a problem and can mitigate it, even if that means we have to commit them. And maybe the NFL could have done something. We can diagnose “CTE like symptoms” (which might or might not be caused by CTE) but the league keeps insisting on taking the approach that these are not “football related” long term injuries and hanging these guys out to dry. Joe Namath has had a bunch of surgeries on his knees all paid for by the league because they say that damage was “football related” but Adams couldn’t get so much as a shrink because the league says his problems weren’t.
well there’s an obvious correlation to knee damage and years of pro football playing
there are many many more potential reasons for a persons brain damage/mental issues