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  • Sterlington High School using new technology to keep football players safe

    New Riddell Insite sensors allow the football staff to monitor when and where players experience contact on the field by sending data from the helmet to a device worn by the team's athletic trainer. "It's like a mini cell phone or pager type of thing, and it sends data to that, I only get alerts for blows that are high impact blows or if someone takes multiple blows close together, or back to back,” says Paul Vaughn, Certified Athletic Trainer.

  • RIDDELL AND THE ALLIANCE OF AMERICAN FOOTBALL AGREE TO MULTI-YEAR PARTNERSHIP

    Riddell and The Alliance of American Football (“The Alliance”) today announced a multi-year partnership bringing the latest in football helmet technology and protective equipment to the new league and its players. Riddell will serve as the official...

  • Union Football Teams Using New High Tech Helmets

    The helmets, made by Riddell, have sensors on the front, top, rear, left, and right. It alerts trainers when an impact is above normal for that position and playing level compared to fourteen years’ worth of data.

  • Helmets give Summit coaches valuable information about concussions

    The Storm players this season were outfitted with special helmets — Riddell SpeedFlex with InSite Training Tool — that monitored the severity of hits and potential concussion risk. A five-zone sensor pad embedded inside the helmets collected data from each practice and game. Coaches could then view that data on an online platform and also analyze impact monitors, the size of a small cellphone, that alerted them in real time of any potentially dangerous collisions.

  • SAFER FOOTBALL HELMETS

    Nico Ilardi was a freshman when he sustained a concussion playing for the Ripon High football program. “I had headaches and had trouble functioning,” he said at Monday’s Ripon Unified school board meeting. As a result, his folks purchased a Riddell SpeedFlex helmet for his safety.

  • Trying to tackle high school football's head injury problem

    About 40 players at Royal use Riddell helmets equipped with sensors that measure the impact of each collision. If a tackle or block exceeds a force threshold set by Riddell, the sensor sends an alert to the monitor held by training staff member Yousef Jalala.

  • WOMEN’S NATIONAL FOOTBALL CONFERENCE NAMES RIDDELL OFFICIAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT PARTNER

    The Women’s National Football Conference (WNFC), the sport’s premier women’s football organization, and Riddell, the leader in football helmet technology and protective equipment, today announced a new multi-year partnership to advance player health and...

  • NEWS9 Special Assignment: High Tech Helmets

    The Waynesburg University Yellow Jackets are using a new tool in the fight against head injury - high tech helmets. Players are wearing Riddell Speedflex helmets with the insight training tool, which monitors concussions and player impact tendencies.

  • Helmet sensor helps concussion research

    The University of Tulsa and Union High School football teams both used the Riddell helmet sensor system, Insite, as part of research studies. Riddell created Insite in 2013. There are five sensors in each helmet that report different head impacts to a handheld device.

  • Youth football team uses high-tech helmets to track big hits

    "Madison football has seen that our numbers have stayed, if not gone up through this, where a lot of towns can’t say that,” says league president Tom Leck. The helmets are made by the company Riddell and cost $300. Families pay $200 for the helmets, with the rest covered by donations.