Really thought you’d put together a quality post until the last line. He wasn’t screwed up in the head from early on, nor was it CTE. He grew up in a normal middle class family and had played a total of like 5 years of football when he landed at UF. He was a fake gangster that simply got swept up in the thug life because it was normalized and even promoted by society, including ESPN. That’s why he killed himself. Unlike 99% of his prison mates, he didn’t have to do any of this. It simply sounded cool at the time, and he had 60+ years of staring at a wall to think about his regrets and the great life he’d given up.