The link is not 100% but two hunters eating from the same deer population and falling ill at around the same time is extremely unlikely to be a coincidence.
We are essentially one mutation away from this spreading between humans and that would be very, very bad.
CWD is a prion disease. If a human died from a prion disease it would be very easy to detect and the symptoms would be obvious
Always get your venison tested for CWD but I want more than a speculative barstool sports tweet to confirm we have a new Creutzfeldt Jakob disease on our hands