The league is exploring ways to make helmets safer and changing rules to better protect players from hard hits in practices and games. This season the NFL changed the kickoff rules, and concussions on ...

PHILADELPHIA -- A last-minute appeal in the NFL concussion case sends the proposed settlement to the U.S. Supreme Court and delays payouts for at least several months. The family of the late Buffalo ...

EARTH CITY, Mo. -- The NFL is investigating the series of events that resulted in a concussion for St. Louis Rams quarterback Case Keenum during the fourth quarter of Sunday's loss to the Baltimore ...

The NFL is facing a concerning issue as the number of concussions keeps rising, even with new safety measures in place. In the 2025 season, there was an all-time high of 538 concussion checks during ...

The NFL and NFL Players Association jointly announced new guidelines on Monday designed to probe and punish teams who violate the league's concussion protocol. Under the new policy, when a team's ...

Not only do I feel sorry for former NFL players dealing with the ramifications from years of countless blows to the head, their stories are both compelling and sad. It is hard to imagine the hardships ...

When the Super Bowl kicks off Sunday, a constant scanning for injury will unfold off the field. Why it matters: Amidst the NFL's ongoing reckoning with head injuries and continued scrutiny of the long ...

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell holds his press conference on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017 at the Super Bowl Media Center in Houston, Texas. (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/TNS) NFL ...

A legal battle over insurance claims may be the last thing to attract the attention of football fans still chewing over draft picks and just what Tom Brady did or didn’t do. But with an estimated $1 ...