Former NFL fullback Kevin Turner died Thursday at the age of 46 after a six-year fight with ALS.
Turner played for the New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles in the NFL and was a star at Alabama in college.
Turner believed that there is a strong link between CTE (the degenerative brain disease found in many former football players) and ALS.
“Football had something to do with it,” Turner said in 2011 (via ESPN.com). ” I don’t know to what extent and I may not ever know. But there are too many people I know that have ALS and played football in similar positions. They seem to be linebackers, fullbacks, strong safeties. Those are big collision guys.”
Kevin Turner, former Patriots and Eagles fullback dead at 46
