- Associated Press - Thursday, December 9, 2010

NEW YORK (AP) - The NFL is looking into running a study that would try to examine whether playing in the league is more likely to result in long-term brain disease than only playing college football.

That’s among the proposals discussed Thursday as the NFL’s head, neck and spine medical committee wrapped up two days of meetings with a session at league headquarters.

Committee co-chairman Hunt Batjer of Northwestern University says the study would test a group of 100 to 150 former NFL players who are 55 to 65 years old and compare them to “an age-matched and position-matched cohort of football players who played NCAA but not the pros.”

The committee also worked on a uniform sideline exam, so every team would check players the same way before deciding whether they can return to a game.

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