Former NFL QB Erik Kramer recounts attempted suicide

Erik Kramer’s life is nearly back to normal nine months after surviving a suicide attempt.

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He lost his mother to uterine cancer in July 2012 and his father became terminally ill with esophageal cancer at the time of Kramer’s suicide attempt.

At the time of the suicide attempt, Kramer’s ex-wife, Marshawn, told reporters she believed Kramer’s “severe depression” could be traced to head trauma from his football career.

But Kramer told the Free Press he was never diagnosed with a concussion in his career and, though he’s not sure, does not attribute the suicide attempt to football.