A recent CDC study found youth tackle football players ages 6-14 sustained 23 times more high magnitude head impacts than flag football athletes, along with 18 times more head impacts per practice.

Since we've already ranked every team in the Big Ten for 2025, ranked every quarterback (including recent UCLA transfer Nico ...

In 2006, a few years after college, DePaul recruited some guys from high school for a football league that resembled a backyard game—seven-on-seven, no kickers or kickoffs, no helmets or pads.

WVU football players where guardian caps for practice. Pictured here is DL Edward Vesterinen (Photo by Teran Malone) CHARLESTON, W.Va. –Senate Bill No. 585 is off to the West Virginia Senate for ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Spring ball is officially here. On Tuesday, the Louisville football program gathered at the Trager Center, and conducted their first of 15 sessions for their 2025 spring practice ...

The Nebraska football team practiced for the third time this spring on Thursday morning, with a 20-minute portion of its practice open to the media. Here’s what stood out from the action: Drills ...

APPLETON, Wis. (WLUK) -- It's become quite common to see high school football players wearing a puffy cap over their helmet. Guardian Caps were created to prevent concussions, but a recent study ...

In 2010, Guardian Sports created a soft-shell helmet called a Guardian Cap, in an attempt to increase protection during the inevitable impacts within football. “The theory behind a helmet in ...

Even the makers of the Guardian Cap admit it looks silly. But for a sport facing an existential brain-injury crisis, once unthinkable solutions have now become almost normal.

(CNN) — Crack! The sound of football helmets colliding on the field is an audible sign that fall is just around the corner. But that sound also comes with a darker side. Mounting scientific ...

Those that do not may not be able to afford them—each costs about $70—or they have been warned by helmet makers that adding the soft shells voids the helmet warranty. Hanson insists that is ...

The IHSA permits the use of the padded helmets in practice. However, they are not mandatory and not worn in games. Each cap costs $69.99. “We felt like it was a minute cost for the level of ...