The NFL’s annual pitch competition, 1st & Future, honored a neck-strengthening training device and a light therapy that aims to boost hormone and peptide production as the prize winners in...
Wearable devices like heart-rate monitors, GPS and RFID trackers, ECG and EMG sensors can record just about every key biometric indicator of an athlete’s training load—except hydration. Thirst and urine color...
As part of its annual 1st & Future entrepreneurial challenge, the NFL is soliciting ideas to improve player safety on punts in a new Punt Analytics Competition. The league has...
This four-part series examines the NFL’s $60 million investment in the Engineering Roadmap to develop research and technology to make football safer. Part one discusses the data behind the controversial helmet rule....
There’s a glut of startups and established companies whose mission it is to provide a quick and accurate way to assess for possible concussions. One startup that recently joined the fray got some significant exposure from the NFL itself. That company is EyeGuide, whose product, Focus, promises a rapid eye movement test that is already […]
