Former NFL Players Die at a Faster Rate Than Other Professional Athletes, Study Finds

May 24, 2019

(STAT News) – A new study of more than 6,000 former professional athletes found that National Football League players died at a rate that was almost 1.3 times higher than Major League Baseball players. It’s the first to compare mortality rates between two groups of professional athletes; previous studies that compared professional athletes to the general population showed a lower risk of death for football players.