What is the force of a hit to the head your kid sees on the field? How are helmets tested to absorb them? The Virginia Tech Helmet Lab explains.

Sports Why a Hot Idea for Making Football Safer Is Such a Hard Sell for the NFL It almost doesn’t matter that a better helmet may be possible.

Is the Schutt F7 Pro the safest helmet ever made? Since its springtime launch, it’s become the fastest-adopted helmet in NFL history. When it comes to designing a safer football helmet, Jason Neubauer ...

Commentary Recreational Helmets: Design Defects—Bicycle, Football and Motorcycling No one has ever attempted any sort of retrospective study of the relationship between helmet design and the ...

The National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment now has data to support the difference in head and neck ...

As the collegiate and professional football seasons wind down to their finales this year, it is interesting to reflect on the controversy surrounding brain injuries in contact sports. The National ...

The new thresholds reduced the number of five-star helmets from 167 to 38 (bicycle), 33 to 11 (varsity football) and youth football (26 to 6). The lab still recommends any four or five star helmets.

The Arizona Republic looks at the best-looking high school football helmets entering the 2025 season. You can vote in our ...

Illinois’ football team has used a lot of helmet designs over the years, but they’ll make history on Tuesday afternoon when they take the field against South Carolina.

At a meeting with St. Henry freshmen and their families on Thursday, Jan. 25, football coach Tim Odom debuted the Crusaders' helmets.