The NCAA owes former South Carolina State football player Robert Geathers and his wife $18 million after a jury found the association was negligent in failing to warn him of the long-term effects of concussions. Geathers, who played defensive end from 1977-80, will receive $10 million as a result of the civil trial. His wife, Debra, is owed $8 million for loss of consortium.

Geathers was diagnosed with dementia in 2017, and physicians who testified at the trial said he displays symptoms of CTE. He struggles with memory loss, cannot hold a job and has difficulties with day-to-day tasks.

Geathers' attorneys argued that the symptoms are a result of trauma from his football career and that they did not appear until decades after his time at South Carolina State. They also alleged that th

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