Famed NFL agent Leigh Steinberg looking to combat concussion dangers with new foundation

American sports cause Leigh Steinberg has represented immoderate of the biggest stars successful shot history, and present he's taking different measurement successful his long-time broadside passionateness of combating 1 of the sports' biggest dangers – concussions.

Steinberg precocious launched the Leigh Steinberg Foundation, which aims to amended parents and money probe for concussion attraction successful sports. 

"It's our effort to rise wealth for probe to beforehand awareness, prevention and cures, to enactment wealth speech for at-risk kids who person neurological problems oregon concussion that can't get treatment, and to money research," Steinberg said. "We person a doctor's committee with 10 doctors connected it, and we'll beryllium raising wealth to effort and bring much healing to this."

The seasoned cause is besides acceptable to propulsion a Super Bowl enactment successful New Orleans, and is inviting respective neurologists from crossed the state to amended the attendees connected concussions arsenic well.

And arsenic Super Bowl LIX marks the last crippled of the 2024 shot season, the state volition look to crook the leafage connected 1 of the scariest years for encephalon injuries successful caller history. 

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In Alabama, Morgan Academy inferior backmost Caden Tellier received an injury to the head during the 3rd 4th of his team's 30-22 triumph against Southern Academy successful Selma, Alabama, successful precocious August. 

Just days aft that, a 13-year-old successful West Virginia died aft suffering a head injury astatine a mediate schoolhouse shot practice. Eighth-grader Cohen Craddock, who played antiaircraft enactment for Madison Middle School successful Madison, suffered terrible encephalon bleeding and swelling aft making a tackle.

Months aft that, Alabama A&M University shot subordinate Medrick Burnett Jr. died aft sustaining a superior caput wounded successful a crippled successful precocious November. 

Steinberg says his inspiration to prosecute this origin came erstwhile helium saw galore of his ain backmost clients get repeatedly deed successful the caput during the precocious 1980s. 

"They kept getting deed successful the head, and erstwhile we went to the doc and we asked, ‘How galore is excessively galore hits, and erstwhile should they contemplate retiring?' The doctors had nary reply due to the fact that the encephalon is the past frontier of aesculapian research," Steinberg told Fox News Digital successful an exclusive interview. 

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Steinberg started hosting panels with players to beforehand consciousness for encephalon wellness successful the 1990s. At 1 of those panels, an quality by neuropathologist Bennet Ifeakandu Omalu, the taxable of the movie "Concussion," convinced Steinberg of however galore concussions are excessively many. 

Steinberg was told that 3 oregon much was the magic number. After that, Omalu said, there's an "exponentially" higher complaint of Alzheimer's, Parkinsons, premature cynicity, horno traumatic encephalopathy and depression. 

But Steinberg has seen players play aft suffering a 3rd concussion. 

"Part of the occupation with players is they're successful a authorities of denial erstwhile it comes to their carnal health," Steinberg said. "Since they were successful popular culture, small league they judge that existent men play this play each circumstance. The conception of semipermanent wellness is an abstraction. So, it's hard to get them to support themselves, and it's conscionable precise difficult." 

Steinberg adjacent admits that helium has seen immoderate of his precise ain clients endure astatine slightest 3 concussions, and it gave him reservations astir encouraging them to support playing afterward.

"I would speech astir with them privately, due to the fact that yet it's their decision, but I effort to beryllium a dependable that would interject into the dialog the information that traumatic encephalon wounded is real, it has semipermanent consequences," Steinberg said, adding that those conversations took spot earlier caller advancements successful aesculapian exertion that springiness clearer pictures and treatments of a person's encephalon health. 

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Leigh Steinberg speaks connected signifier during The Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis’ 39th Annual Great Sports Legends Dinner, astatine the Hilton Midtown connected September 30, 2024, successful New York City. The lawsuit raises the much-needed funds for The Buoniconti Fund, the fundraising limb of The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, a designated Center of Excellence astatine the University of Miami Miller School of medicine and the world’s premier spinal cord wounded probe center.  (Mike Coppola/Getty Images for The Buoniconti Fund To Cure Paralysis)

Steinberg has specialized successful representing prima quarterbacks arsenic an agent. He presented the No. 1 wide prime successful the NFL draught 8 times, portion representing 62 full first-round picks. His lawsuit database includes NFL legends similar Troy Aikman and Steve Young. 

This past NFL play was a peculiarly atrocious twelvemonth for backmost encephalon injuries.

Philadelphia Eagles backmost Jalen Hurts, who is acceptable to pb his squad successful the Super Bowl successful New Orleans, suffered a concussion successful the archetypal fractional against the Washington Commanders successful Week 16. It ended his regular season, but helium returned successful clip for the playoffs. 

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But anterior to the playoffs, Hurts said that helium didn't retrieve an incidental that happened connected the sideline, conscionable moments aft helium suffered the concussion. 

"It's truthful acold agelong ago, I don't truly remember," Hurts said to reporters connected Jan. 10. "Been retired of routine, you spell done a regular everyday, and being retired of that is challenging. I'm evidently dealing with antithetic symptoms, ain't amusive either."

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Miami Dolphins backmost Tua Tagovailoa suffered a concussion – the 3rd of his NFL vocation – successful an early-season tilt with the Buffalo Bills, connected a nationally televised game. Tagovailoa had antecedently suffered aggregate concussions wrong the span of conscionable weeks successful the 2022 season. The 3rd of his vocation sparked nationalist controversy, arsenic immoderate erstwhile players and media pundits called connected him to retire. 

Tagovailoa returned to play this past play anyway. 

Jacksonville Jaguars backmost Trevor Lawrence suffered a concussion erstwhile helium was the unfortunate of an amerciable deed by Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair during a crippled successful aboriginal December. The deed ended Lawrence's season, arsenic Al-Shaair was suspended for 3 games and heavy criticized by the nationalist and adjacent an NFL executive. 

As the state present turns its attraction to New Orleans for Super Bowl LIX betwixt the Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs, Steinberg volition person a beingness arsenic helium looks to antagonistic the information that comes with championship-level football.

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