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Why it’s so hard to make a ‘safer’ football helmet

When players take the field at the start of the NFL season, many will be sporting the new, subtly different F7 Pro helmet, which some have speculated might be the safest one football has ever seen. That’s significant for a sport that, over the past two decades, has become as well known for concussions as end zone celebrations. Schutt Sports, which makes the F7 Pro, claims that 35 percent of active NFL athletes have already adopted the helmet.

Football is a sport with a traditionalist bent, particularly when it comes to this piece of gear. Case in point: one of Schutt’s longtime users, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers. The Schu …

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