{"id":486887,"date":"2026-02-24T03:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T03:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/486887\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T03:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T03:49:07","slug":"nfl-to-study-shoulder-pad-requirements-after-rise-in-shoulder-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/486887\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL to study shoulder pad requirements after rise in shoulder injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL\u2019s offseason plans include taking a look at whether changes should be made to the league\u2019s shoulder pad requirements. <\/p>\n<p>NFL executive vice president Jeff Miller said on Monday that a rise in shoulder injuries in recent seasons has led the league to examine whether there\u2019s a correlation to a trend that\u2019s seen the padding provide \u201cless coverage\u201d than they did in the past. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cShoulder injuries were <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MarkMaske\/status\/2026061834118156755\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">very high a year ago<\/a>,\u201d Miller said, via longtime NFL reporter Mark Maske. \u201cThey weren\u2019t quite as high this year, but they were still higher than average. And so the conversation with the Competition Committee went to: Are there equipment-focused ways you can prevent some of those injuries?<\/p>\n<p>Miller said he thinks there are \u201cequipment elements to this which need to be addressed\u201d and a consensus around the rest of the league could lead to a different look on the field in 2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL\u2019s offseason plans include taking a look at whether changes should be made to the league\u2019s shoulder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-486887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}