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NCAA ordered to pay $18M to former football player and wife in concussion lawsuit
- On Oct 26, 2025, a South Carolina jury ordered the NCAA to pay $18 million to Robert Geathers and his wife, Debra.
- The jury found that the NCAA `knew about concussion risk dating back to the 1930s` and `negligently breached their duties` to protect Robert Geathers, as Bakari Sellers alleged.
- Trial physicians who testified about CTE said Robert Geathers displays symptoms of chronic traumatic encephalopathy and now struggles with daily tasks after a dementia diagnosis years ago.
- NCAA spokesperson Greg Johnson said Saturday the organization disagreed with the verdict and `was prepared to pursue our rights on post-trial motions and on appeal`.
- Bakari Sellers told jurors the NCAA `withheld` information, while attorneys for Robert and Debra Geathers argued trauma from blows surfaced decades later; chronic traumatic encephalopathy can be diagnosed only posthumously.
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A South Carolina jury has condemned the NCAA, the organization that controls football at the university level in the United States, to indemnify Robert Geathers (10 million) and his wife Debra (8 million) with $18 million.The reason is that the NCAA did not inform Geathers sufficiently of the risks associated with playing football and the long-term consequences of blows to the head.wf_cms.rss.read_more
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ORANGEBURG, S.C. — The NCAA owes a former college football player and his wife $18 million, a South Carolina jury decided while finding college sports' major governing body negligent in failing to warn the player about the long-term effects of…
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