NFL Star Demaryius Thomas’s Autopsy Points To Complications Of A Seizure Disorder As Cause Of Death

Late NFL star and former Georgia Tech player Demaryius Thomas died from “complications of a seizure disorder,” according to reports from his final autopsy results.

The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office conducted the athlete’s autopsy a day after he was found dead in the shower of his Georgia home on Dec. 9. He was 33 years old.

The medical examiner indicated that there was “no direct relationship” between the seizure disorder and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, the degenerative brain disease that Thomas battled before his death, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

Doctors at the Boston University CTE Center confirmed in July that the star player was diagnosed with stage 2 CTE after his brain was studied posthumously.

The autopsy report still leaves several unanswered questions surrounding Thomas’ death. The medical examiner listed the manner of death as undetermined and added that it was unclear if the seizure disorder resulted from natural causes or was the effect of head trauma that he suffered while playing in the league, ESPN and the Denver Post reported.

The family previously said he had died from cardiac arrest caused by a seizure, which he had begun suffering from since a 2019 car accident.