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  Anderson Co. high school football team using smart helmets

  Crescent High School's football team in Anderson County is using high tech helmets to monitor impact levels during practices in an effort to keep players safer. These "InSite Training Tool" helmets are made by Riddell, and use data from about 5 million impacts collected since 2004 to create impact profiles for each player and provide on-field alerts. Coaches hope it can be used as a tool to help lower chances of players suffering concussions.

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  Danville team going high-tech with hard knocks

  Danville will be using Riddell’s InSite Training Tool technology in its helmets this upcoming football season, becoming the first program in Alabama to have its seventh- through 12th-grade teams wearing the helmets. Eight other high schools in Alabama are utilizing this technology. Around 900 high schools across the country use InSite technology. Reflecting to that sophomore year, McGregory said he only exited the game when a teammate saw him zoning out in the huddle. He found out later that he had suffered a concussion.

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  Zanesville implementing Riddell InSite technology next season

  It’s possible these kind of impacts might be missed, which poses a much bigger problem. If a player has the symptoms of a concussion, but his coaches are unaware, there could be catastrophic consequences down the road. This is exactly why Zanesville High School is introducing Riddell InSite technology in their helmets next season. Unveiled in 2013, the sensors placed in helmets track head impacts and relay information on the hits to a coach or trainer on the sideline, who uses a small handheld device to gauge what kind of force the hit had.

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  Mannings returning to Nicholls for annual passing academy MOST POPULAR

  Many people have circled Thursday on their calendar as the official start of summer. But for aspiring college quarterbacks, Thursday is circled for a completely different reason. It’s the official start of the Manning Passing Academy.

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  Football player safety goes high-tech

  When the McNeese State football team takes the field for the 2018 season, it will do so with the Cowboys wearing some state-of-the-art technology on their heads. Less than two weeks after announcing a $100,000 donation to provide Riddell’s InSite Smart Helmet Technology to every varsity football player in Calcasieu Parish, The Lake Charles Memorial Foundation provided McNeese with a $15,000 check in the End Zone room in the McNeese Football Fieldhouse to bring the helmets and their technology to the college level in Lake Charles.

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  Free Broncos Camp Teaches Football Safety & ‘Proper Fundamentals’

  The free, non-contact USA Football event, was held in partnership with Riddell and AIG

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  Chargers Team Up with USA Football Protection Tour

  USA Football and Riddell have teamed up for the 2018 USA Football Protection Tour. Stop 1 Costa Mesa, California and a visit to the HOAG Performance Center, training facility of the Los Angeles Chargers.

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  The promise that led to Iowa jumping to the forefront on helmet safety

  Iowa was among the last college football teams to dump padded football helmets, and Greg Morris needed to say something. This was more than a quarter-century ago, and the Hawkeyes’ equipment manager wasn’t sold on the newer air-pressure helmets. Padding, he thought, had more potential.

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  USA Football's Protection Tour Connects the Fun of Football with Education

  Indianapolis – Offering the fun and fitness of football to young athletes, USA Football’s 2018 Protection Tour will kick off its national schedule on June 16. The series of USA Football events, conducted in partnership with Riddell and AIG, delivers expert-driven football and player safety information to youth players, parents and coaches, including proper tackling fundamentals, concussion education and equipment fitting.

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  USA Football kicks off '2018 Protection Tour' with youth events in seven cities

  As the summer months bring football season ever closer, USA Football is kicking off a national schedule of free youth football events aimed at delivering safety information and training in seven different cities.