Jason Kelce says he can virtually guarantee he has CTE, brain damage from football [Video]

By Gabriela Carroll, The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS)

On X, formerly Twitter, Jason Kelce confirmed that he’s almost certainly going to suffer from Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, a form of brain damage suffered by many football players after their careers due to repeated head trauma. But the reason he got to that point in the first place might surprise you.

Kelce got into hot water with an unexpected group of people on social media last week — Secretariat fans. Kelce speculated on his New Heights podcast that Secretariat, the best racehorse of all time and known for his enlarged heart, was “juiced to the gills.”

He doubled down on that position on X on May 9, writing a long post presenting his theory that Secretariat may have been doping when the horse won the 1973 Triple Crown, since an enlarged heart is a symptom of steroid use.