Deceased Player’s Estate Files Multiple Concussion Cases

By: Jeff Birren, Senior Writer Donnell Baker was briefly in the NFL in 1996 and 1997.  He signed with three different teams but never played in a regular-season game.  He passed away in February 2020.  Since that time, his widow has filed not one, or even two concussion cases against the NFL, but instead filed five such cases.  One case, filed in New York, was transferred to League-wide concussion class-action court.  Another was filed in Florida.  That was recen