Damaged ex-players grab what they can
Once a hard-driving fullback for the Eagles, Kevin Turner no longer has the hand strength to grasp a straw. That helps explain why Turner considered Thursday’s news of a settlement between the National Football League and former NFL players suing the league to be as big a victory as any he had experienced on the field.
Turner, 44, found out he shouldn’t have to prove that his many symptoms from his diagnosed amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, came from his eight seasons in the NFL. A lead plaintiff in the class-action settlement reached between 4,500 former players and the NFL, Turner should receive some of the $765 million (€580m) the league will pay to settle lawsuits.
