I wasn’t impressed by Hernandez. A big, dumb, violent, jock. His type is more common than you realize.
He was an extremely talented and awesome player.
What else would a big, talented, football player be at the level he competed? Big, extremely focused, passionate, strong, jock be but violent? I don't wonder why there are incidents of domestic abuse among professional athletes but why there isn't more. They enjoy hitting and getting hit. That's something that's not always possible to click on and click off like a light switch. See O.J. Simpson and countless others. They must be extremely interesting in psychatric studies.
Like Junior Seau, Aaron Hernandez was found to also suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative disease typically caused by multiple hits to the head.