The NFL had 182 concussions this season, down 17% compared to 20023

This season, the NFL has recorded its fewer concussions since it started to follow the data in 2015, the League announced on Thursday.

The total of 182 concussion during the matches and training in pre-season and regular season represented a decrease of 17% compared to 2023. The lowest previous for the same period was 187 in 2022, not to mention the season 2020 When COVID’s protocols canceled the pre-season.

The average at five years, not to mention 2020, was 211.4 per season.

“We are very satisfied with concussion figures, but not at all suggesting that the work is over,” said Dr. Allen Syls, chief of NFL. “We still have a lot to do to continue making the game safer and not only reducing concussion, but also to reduce the preventable impact of the head.”

Here is a good snapshot of the CONSEBRAL CONTROL DATA NFL over the years, via the @Nflculminating in the lowest record today. There were no pre-season matches in 2020, representing this lower number. pic.twitter.com/gwphetxled

– Kevin Seifert (@seifertespn) January 30, 2025

Slls and Jeff Miller, the executive vice-president of the NFL, supervising the health and safety of players, allocated the drop of 2024 to a series of factors which included the quality of the helmet and the compulsory use of the goalkeeper ceilings for Most players during the training camp and regular season practices. The brain concussion rate dropped 43% on the newly designed kick -off of the League, but there were the same total number of concussion on the kicks in 2024 (eight) as in 2023 because The rule has created more overall yields.

According to Syls, 35% of all players improved their quality of helmet in 2024 on the basis of the ranking published each year by the NFL and the NFL Players Association. As a rule, Slls said that this rate is between 14% and 17%. In addition, about a third of eligible players carried helmets specially designed for their positions.

The NFL, on the other hand, began to impose the use of Guardian caps in practice for players in certain positions in 2022 and extended it to include all positions, with the exception of quarters and specialists in 2023 . Some helmets have worked sufficiently in the NFL / NFLPA tests that players who used them were exempt from Guardian ceiling mandates.

“I think we can say with a high degree of confidence that the use of Guardian caps plus the helmets of the Guardian ceiling has certainly provided a sustained reduction in the number of concussion that we see in this environment of pre-season pre-season practice “, Slls says.

About 20 players wore Guardian ceilings in regular season matches by their choice, said Miller. Slls, however, said that this number was too small to generate reliable data to find out if they had received an advantage.

In other news of NFL health and safety:

• The new kick -off rule coincided in a drop with the overall injury rate of the game, carrying it almost even with all other scrums, said Miller. Historically, the rate of injury on kicks took place between two and four times that of other games.

• No player has received penalties on the ground for violating the new rule which prohibits hip plated. But Miller said that around 30 players had been sentenced to a fine or received warning letters after criticism of the game film by league officials, the type of application after action.

• The NFL has developed a new data point that measures the effects of parts which include the impact of the helmet of the place where at least one of the players travels at least 15 miles per hour. The first results show that such blows lead to a 26 -time brain rate higher than normal games.