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NFL CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER DR. ALLEN SILLS AND NFL EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT OF PLAYER HEALTH AND SAFETY INNOVATIONS JEFF MILLER: PRESS BRIEFING2019 FALL LEAGUE MEETING FORT LAUDERDALE, FL - OCTOBER 15, 2019Jeff Miller: Around this time every year, we take a look at preseason numbers and some other developments in the health and safety space. And we talked about some of the helmet adoption numbers, preseason injuries and mental health which has been a priority for us during this offseason so we'll walk you through that now. On helmet adoption numbers, which is something that we've obviously spent a lot of time thinking and working on over the past couple of years, including in this offseason, we're really pleased with where we are in terms of the players adopting the best performing helmets. Credit to the players, to the Players A sociation, to our equipment managers, and training staff. Two years ago, in 2017 just a few statistics we had about a 41% adoption rate of the green or the best performing helmets. Last year, by Week 17, that number had jumped to 74%, so that was a significant increase. By Week 5 this year, all but 13 players acro s the NFL were wearing the green or NHL Los Angeles Kings Women Jersey best-performing helmets, so that's 99%. Those 13just for clarificationare wearing yellow-performing helmets which are still permi sible. None of the players were in those that are are prohibited. So again, credit to a lot of people for making those differences. Those helmets perform better in laboratory testing where we do see a correlation with on-field injuries, and we think that that's another step towards player safety that we're proud of and I'm proud of Robyn Regehr Jersey the work that we're doing with the Players A sociation. Allen will give an update on the injury statistics.Dr. Allen Sills: Thanks Jeff. So, we always, as you know, at this time of year start to look back at our preseason injury numbers. We'll start with concu sions. I would say that overall the story there it shows is that we still have work to do. We like to say that progre s in health and safety is not always linear, and I think this is illustrated by the preseason. So, we did see a significant decrease in preseason practice concu sions. They went down from 45 in 2018 down to 30 this year. We're really pleased about that. We think that reflects the emphasis we placed on that. We obviously had lots of discu sions with clubs and with coaches and really put an emphasis on that. You know that Troy and this group worked on prohibiting certain drills and so we think all those factors played a role. At the same time, concu sions went up in preseason games. They went up to total of 49 this year. And so, the overall number of concu sions in the preseason was flat. It was 79 in 2018 and was 79 in 2019, if you account for practices and games. So down in practices, up in games this year. Obviously, we will continue to do a lot of drill down work on exactly what's driving that in games. We're looking at who's injured, how they were injured, what type of place, did they eventually make the roster, and how many years of experience they have. We've already got some preliminary work on that. I think we can say that it looks like it' NHL Los Angeles Kings Men Jersey s disproportionately rookie and first-year players who are suffering those concu sions both in practices and in games, and in fact, a lot of those players who've been injured in games with concu sions don't end up making the roster. So that's something we have more work to do. Jeff, you may want to add some color on that point.Miller: Sure, we took a look at who is suffering the injuries as opposed to just the mechanisms of those injuries. We saw a couple of interesting points as Allen articulated. We're seeing a move or trend towards players who don't make the rosters suffering a disproportionate number of the injuries. As an example, five years ago when you started tracking some of these statistics, if you made the roster or you didn't make the roster, your relative rate of concu sion was almost exactly the same. Five years later in 2019, players who did not make the roster had twice the rate of concu sion in practices and games, as players who did make the roster. Now there's an obvious correlation there between playing time. The preceding players who don't make the roster are playing an increased number of snaps during preseason games, so it makes sense that they're going to suffer some more injuries, but that was one of the insights Darcy Kuemper Women Jersey that was gleaned from it, Allen talked a little bit about some of the rookie or first year players suffering a greater number of injuries or potentially being involved in collisions that caused more injuries so that's another point of information that we're going to continue to track.
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