As long as the players don't show any decline mentally (while they're playing) no one will ever care. The NFL is simply printing money at this time and no one will close that bank.The CTE has been around for long enough now to not just talk about starting kids out at 12. It's illogical and life threatening to.your kids abilities going forward. CTE and how it happens is unavoidable. The way your brain sits inside cranium and slams into it from every hit or other hit - varying forces - will cause damage. Period. Those funny protective pads over the helmet are bullshit. They don't protect anything going on inside your skull and that's the problem without a solution. So, good luck to all of these kids and parents willing to risk for possible riches at like .000001223% chance to play in the NFL or.otherwise. IMO, Football should have been a dying busines/game with the seriousness of CTE, but it's turned into.jokes, misinformation, disinformation. Sad but here we are.
But eventually they're going to have to ban all helmet contact and teach players how to tackle with their shoulders. Today's players just launch themselves wrecklessly to make tackles.
A good indicator to reduce CTE would study the levels of CTE in rugby players. If it's low or even not detectable there it's the only option for the NFL to protect their players and the future of the game.
*Edit* I just googled it and never mind CTE is crazy in rugby too