There is a foregone conclusion that pro football as we know it today is going to eventually have big changes for player safety. I'm throwing out there that maybe they handle it the way other sports handle competitors who make weapons of the human body. With weight limits.
Most violent and many non-violent contact sports have weight classes or weight limits. The NFL is the only sport where a 250 pound guy can tee off on a 170 pound guy.
So maybe there will need weight definitions for different positions. A WR must be at least 180 lbs. A LB can't weigh more than 220 lbs. And so on.
The devil would be in the details. Somehow the rules would have to factor in hybrid positions and stuff like using a DL to carry the football in short yardage offense.
All this sounds crazy. And while you are laughing about this, I'll stand by and wait for you to justify a one hundred pound weight differential between two players hitting each other.
On a more technical note, the players need better equipment. Not rigid armor that itself is a weapon, but new plyable materials that absorb collisions but are still strong enough to keep enough energy off the player's brain.
Most violent and many non-violent contact sports have weight classes or weight limits. The NFL is the only sport where a 250 pound guy can tee off on a 170 pound guy.
So maybe there will need weight definitions for different positions. A WR must be at least 180 lbs. A LB can't weigh more than 220 lbs. And so on.
The devil would be in the details. Somehow the rules would have to factor in hybrid positions and stuff like using a DL to carry the football in short yardage offense.
All this sounds crazy. And while you are laughing about this, I'll stand by and wait for you to justify a one hundred pound weight differential between two players hitting each other.
On a more technical note, the players need better equipment. Not rigid armor that itself is a weapon, but new plyable materials that absorb collisions but are still strong enough to keep enough energy off the player's brain.