By the end of Saturday’s final round of the NFL Draft, 256 players were drafted out of college and into the pros.
How lucky they are.
How cursed they are.
Last year, somewhere between news about Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson, the NFL admitted this: Nearly 30 percent of its former players will develop brain diseases, such as Alzheimer’s or dementia.
By that math, that means 77 of those 256 players will develop some form of debilitating brain disease.