Monthly Archives: August 2023
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- August 31, 2023
Football is one of the most physical sports played in the United States. Athletes that play football are plagued by injuries even though they do what they can to protect their bodies. The right equipment is extremely important when it comes to protecting oneself from hard tackles as well as normal injuries.
As pad and helmet technology continue to evolve, players are safer now than they ever have been, but that doesn’t mean that players aren’t going to get hurt. Wearing too much protection on your body can limit your range of motion or cause you to be less agile than if you were wearing no pads at all, so it’s a delicate balance to find the right pads when playing certain positions.
Not every position utilizes the same types of pads during a game. For example, a quarterback needs to be able to move around quicker than say an offensive lineman, so the quarterback pads are lighter and less bulky than those of the player right on the line of scrimmage trying to stop the defenders from attacking.
