# NFL Offseason 2022 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** football-nfl\ **Created:** [March 7, 2022, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-offseason-2022/960634 "2022-03-07T20:46:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 284
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-offseason-2022/960634/284 "2022-06-02T19:01:40Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > Marion Barber III found dead, I really hope this isn’t the start of a much worse story. His passing was noted in a Great Debates thread on football concussions last night; there, I posted a link to the story about his death in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where they noted he had had several mental health evaluations since his retirement, and a run-in with the law a couple of years ago, in which it sounds like he rammed his body into a couple of cars. The article also contained a tweet from last year, from his former teammate Dez Bryant, who described Barber as being “down and out bad.” Between all of that, and the fact that Barber had a very physical running style, I wouldn’t be surprised if he had suffered from CTE. > [@Football Concussions, the next Big Thing?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/football-concussions-the-next-big-thing/628696/135): > > It certainly seems possible. The article to which you linked seems to be more of an opinion piece; the following, more news-y piece, also from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, contains this passage: --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-offseason-2022/960634)._