Former Denver Broncos wide receiver Demaryius Thomas was posthumously diagnosed with Stage 2 CTE following an analysis conducted at the Boston University Brain Bank.
Chris Nowinski, the founder of the Concussion Legacy Foundation, shared the diagnosis on social media Tuesday morning:
Breaking: Beloved #NFL WR Demaryius Thomas had Stage 2 #CTE when he died at 33. I arranged his brain donation to the VA-BU-@ConcussionLF Brain Bank where @annmckeemd @bu_cte made the diagnosis. He struggled with erratic behavior, memory loss, & paranoia. https://t.co/7t8x4Q7WQV
— Chris Nowinski, Ph.D. (@ChrisNowinski1) July 5, 2022
Thomas passed away in December of 2021, 16 days shy of his 34th birthday. Thomas suffered a seizure which was due to complications from an injury suffered in a car crash back in 2019. As Nowinski pointed out in his thread on Twitter, the coroner’s office in Fulton County, Georgia has not ruled on the cause of his death, but doctors in Boston indicated he most likely died after a seizure caused by a traumatic brain injury.
