Just under eight months after his terrible de@th, Demaryius Thomas’ cause of de@th was made public. According to an autopsy report from the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office, the former NFL great wide receiver passed away due to complications brought on by a seizure disorder.
9NEWS and The Denver Post were able to receive the report. Less than six months after his NFL retirement, on December 9 of last year, Thomas’ body was discovered in the shower of his Roswell, Georgia, home.
He was 16 days away from turning 34 and was 33 years old. The medical examiner, Karen Sullivan, deemed Thomas’ cause of de@th to be “undetermined,” according to the report.
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Thomas’ relatives thought a seizure might have contributed to his de@th. Following a 2019 vehicle accident in which his car rolled numerous times and he struck his head on the windshield due to driving above 70 mph in a 30-mph zone, Thomas had been experiencing seizures.
Thomas was given a Stage 2 chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) diagnosis posthumously last month after having his brain evaluated at Boston University’s CTE Center. Repeated head trauma leads to CTE, a degenerative brain condition.
“CTE itself does not cause de@th. You don’t die from CTE,” Dr. Ann McKee, director of Boston University’s CTE Center, told ABC News following the examination. “What CTE does is it changes your behavior and your personality.”
In the year before to his passing, Thomas’ parents said that he had struggled with migraines, paranoia, memory loss, and mood swings.
In the postmortem report, Sullivan stated that it is unknown if Thomas’ seizure disorder was brought on by natural reasons or by the blows to the head he sustained while playing.
She mentioned that Dr. Chris Nowinski of Boston University, who did not think CTE was the source of Thomas’ seizure issue, was informed of the autopsy results.
Thomas, a Georgia Tech alum, was chosen by the Denver Broncos in the first round of the 2010 NFL Draft. Thomas played for the Broncos for most of his ten-year career, appearing in four Pro Bowls, and winning the Super Bowl 50.
He also participated in games with the New England Patriots, Houston Texans, and New York Jets.
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