NEW YORK: Detroit Lions offensive tackle Emmett Cleary pledged Thursday to donate his brain to the Concussion Legacy Foundation to help research into chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and other head injuries.

CTE and other serious brain injury issues have nagged the NFL in recent years. Three Boston University studies on CTE this year included tests on 111 brains of deceased former NFL players that showed evidence of CTE in all but one.

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