Per Lance himself he is dealing with CTE

Not to sound heartless, as I love him for everything he gave. However, that's the trade-off for Lambo crashing money and living the dream for a good while. Most of these guys don't get really bad until a couple decades out, and it's great to be honest with your people early so you can work on proactive, therapeutic measures.

shortened life for your families generational wealth. Kids, kids kids shouldn't have to worry about money if you did it right. It's a sad and heavy price for a great reward very few will every know. 

50-100 years ago people had shortened lives from coal mines, factories and construction sites and still lived like paupers. 

Still a terrible price and sad to think about, but at least he and his family don't have the day to day worries about how they'll pay for this, or make a living after it really sets in.

If not for being a college as well as a NFL running back and my career wasn't near as long as some of the better ones. I may not have been diagnostics with ALS. Which has been shown to be connected with playing football.

For older players like you JJ it sounds like they didn't know the level of bad consequences that have been revealed in recent years.  At least I had never heard about dementia, CTE & ALS connections.  And many of those players were not getting paid the big bucks that players now make.