O.J. Simpson Blaming The NFL For His Crimes?

O.J. Simpson will do anything to get his grubby mitts on some cash — and now pals are claiming the disgraced gridiron great’s out to grab a chunk of the NFL’s billion-dollar concussion fund by shamelessly claiming brain injuries drove him to crime!

Simpson plans to say he was suffering chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) brain injuries from his playing days when his ex-wife Nicole and her pal Ron Goldman were butchered in 1994 and when he attempted the 2007 armed robbery of sports memorabilia agents in Las Vegas, sources claim.

“If anyone has CTE, it’s O.J. Simpson!” The National ENQUIRER learned from a source. “It’s the only way you can explain his strange behavior that began in 1994!” The former Buffalo Bills star was found not guilty of the gruesome Brentwood murders of his ex and her friend during his sensational trial.

But he was later found responsible for slaughtering Nicole and Ron at a civil trial and ordered to pay $25 million in damages to victims’ families — although he’s stiffed them so far. The source says “O.J. was already acting nutty when I met him in 1999. And he got stranger and stranger as the years went by.

"He would have angry outbursts," the source continued. "He was moody, impulsive and was already suffering from memory loss.” The source said he “stopped hanging out with Simpson in 2007 because he was getting too weird.” Coincidentally, this was the same year as the robbery.

O.J. was recently released after serving nine years in a Nevada prison for that crime. Now, he’s after one of the $5 million payouts the NFL is giving thousands of former players suffering from CTE. And Dr. Bennet Omalu, the man who first traced and exposed the CTE-NFL link, says O.J. has a case!

The doc, whose work inspired the 2015 Will Smith drama "Concussion," says he’s willing to “bet his medical license” that O.J. suffers from the disease.