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NFL: Fewer Concussions Suffered in 2014 Season

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5 30 12%20NFL?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1422632930842NFL Shield (NFL)(NEW YORK) — The NFL announced that concussions were down during the 2014 season as well as other injury findings.

According to the league, the number of recorded concussions dropped 25 percent during the regular season.

“Players are changing the way they’re tackling,” NFL Senior Vice President of Health and Safety Policy Jeff Miller said. “They’re changing the way they play the game.”

There were 111 concussions in games during the 2014 regular season. That number was down from 148 in 2013 and 173 in 2012. That equates to a 36 percent drop over that three-year span.

“It would have been nice if we had started this in 1930, but we didn’t,” said San Francisco 49ers chairman John York, who leads the owners’ health and safety committee. “And as things came to our attention, we took more interest in looking at these questions.”

Miller also went on to say that the drop in concussions has not resulted in more knee injuries.


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