Judge: Hernandez's child can't sue NFL over brain disease

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The 6-year-old daughter of the late NFL player Aaron Hernandez missed a 2014 deadline to opt out of the league's concussion settlement and can't separately pursue a $20 million suit over his diagnosis of a degenerative brain disease, a judge ruled. Yet Hernandez's death in 2017 came too late for his family to seek up to $4 million in compensation for suicides related to chronic traumatic encephalopathy under the class action settlement. Hernandez spent three years with the New England Patriots before his 2013 arrest on the first of three homicide charges.

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