Max Tuerk was an American professional football player who was a center in the National Football League.
19 Facts About Max Tuerk
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Max Tuerk was a first-team all-Pac-12 Conference selection in 2014.
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Max Tuerk spent his rookie year with the Chargers and split time in his second and final NFL season with the Chargers and the Arizona Cardinals.
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Max Tuerk had a younger brother Drake, and two sisters, Natalie and Abby.
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Max Tuerk's father played tight end for Brown University in the early 1980s.
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Max Tuerk attended Santa Margarita Catholic High School, where he was a two-way lineman.
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Max Tuerk played in every game his first 3 seasons and was named to many all-star teams.
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Max Tuerk played all three interior lineman positions, but he was primarily a center.
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Max Tuerk was a team captain both his junior and senior years.
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Max Tuerk was considered one of the top centers in college football at the beginning of his senior year, but his season was cut short after five games when he tore an anterior cruciate ligament.
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Max Tuerk was unable to participate in the post-season draft combines because of his knee injury, except he was able to do the bench press test.
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Max Tuerk was drafted by the San Diego Chargers in the third round, 66th overall, in the 2016 NFL draft.
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Max Tuerk made the Chargers' roster in 2016 but was inactive for all 16 regular-season games, although he did play during the pre-season.
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Max Tuerk was suspended for the first four games of the 2017 season after violating the NFL policy on performance-enhancing substances.
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Max Tuerk was re-signed to the Chargers practice squad on October 26,2017.
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On November 6,2017, Max Tuerk was signed by the Arizona Cardinals off the Chargers' practice squad.
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On June 20,2020, Max Tuerk collapsed and died of an enlarged heart, an autopsy report revealed, while on a hike with his parents in the Cleveland National Forest.
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Max Tuerk said: "That was very important to us, because we feel that CTE probably had some impact on Max".
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Max Tuerk is one of at least 345 NFL players to be diagnosed after death with this disease, which is caused by repeated hits to the head.