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Through every tackle, touchdown and turnover, the Wyoming Cowboys have become innovators in the sport of football. A partnership with Riddell has seen the pokes take a front seat in advancing player safety. Through sensors inside the helmet, the university now has more data at their disposal on a day-to-day basis.
The Riddell Axiom helmets are custom fit to players’ heads and have other safety features, including a third-generation sensor. The sensors allow for the creation weekly reports on which players are taking hits at different points of their head and what time it happened.
Riddell's efforts to help football players avoid concussions doesn't stop with the helmet. The company also has been developing technology to help coaches monitor what's happening to players heads while they're on the field. Riddell took advantage of technology improvements, adopting smaller, less-expensive sensors that connect to a cloud data-storage platform and mobile-phone app that will make the system cheaper, easier to use and more widely deployed.
Football is a brutal, punishing sport that exacts a toll from those who play it. Putting on the helmet, pads and jersey before slogging through tryouts, practices and weekly games is a bit easier when your reward is something more than victory or love...
KC running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire is among the NFL players who are wearing the new Riddell Axiom helmet, which provides an unusually wide field of vision.
This past January, Riddell — the world’s leading football helmet manufacturer — announced its latest headgear design “for comfort and safety”. This fall, two Illinois FCS programs are putting it to use on the field.
Boardroom spoke to Riddell about its newest helmet and how it customizes the design and tech within to suit each individual player.
Player’s head is scanned to make a personalized fit
The company has gained market share coming out of the pandemic, and its North Ridgeville plant is a big reason for its success.
CNBC's Courtney Reagan joins Tyler Mathisen and 'The News with Shepard Smith' to report on new helmet technology designed to make the game of football safer.
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