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NFL testing new protective facemasks with surgical or N95 material
NFL engineers and sports-equipment company Oakley are testing prototypes of modified facemasks that might contain surgical or N95 material, the NFL Players Association’s medical director said Monday.
Speaking on Monday’s The Adam Schefter Podcast, Thom Mayer said “there will probably be a recommendation” that the NFL use such masks to protect players from the coronavirus when the league returns to play.
“Back in early March, I had suggested that we should consider novel and emerging ways to handle the helmets and the facemasks and the spread of the virus,” Mayer said. “And these guys, the bioengineers that we use and that the league uses — Oakley, as you may or may not know, does all the face visors for the league under contract — these guys got the bit between their teeth.”
Mayer said he isn’t sure exactly how the modifications would look, but he acknowledged that it is realistic to think the new designs could cover a player’s entire facemask and that the engineers are working on everything such a design might entail.
“They’ve got some prototypes. They’re doing really good work,” he said. “Some of them, when you first look at them, you think, ‘Gosh, no’ ’cause you’re not used to seeing it. You’re just not used to seeing it. But they’re looking at every issue you can imagine, including when it fogs up. What do we do with that? But these guys are used to dealing with this stuff.”
Entire article: http://newswakers.com/nfl-testing-new-protective-facemasks-with-surgical-or-n95-material/
NFL engineers and sports-equipment company Oakley are testing prototypes of modified facemasks that might contain surgical or N95 material, the NFL Players Association’s medical director said Monday.
Speaking on Monday’s The Adam Schefter Podcast, Thom Mayer said “there will probably be a recommendation” that the NFL use such masks to protect players from the coronavirus when the league returns to play.
“Back in early March, I had suggested that we should consider novel and emerging ways to handle the helmets and the facemasks and the spread of the virus,” Mayer said. “And these guys, the bioengineers that we use and that the league uses — Oakley, as you may or may not know, does all the face visors for the league under contract — these guys got the bit between their teeth.”
Mayer said he isn’t sure exactly how the modifications would look, but he acknowledged that it is realistic to think the new designs could cover a player’s entire facemask and that the engineers are working on everything such a design might entail.
“They’ve got some prototypes. They’re doing really good work,” he said. “Some of them, when you first look at them, you think, ‘Gosh, no’ ’cause you’re not used to seeing it. You’re just not used to seeing it. But they’re looking at every issue you can imagine, including when it fogs up. What do we do with that? But these guys are used to dealing with this stuff.”
Entire article: http://newswakers.com/nfl-testing-new-protective-facemasks-with-surgical-or-n95-material/
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
TOUGH LUCK GETS TOUGHER. This was already the worst season imaginable to try to make a team as an undrafted free agent with pro days and workouts canceled, rookie minicamps nonexistent and the preseason likely getting cut in half.
But it looks like it's going to get even worse.
In an effort to combat the spread of coronavirus, NFL teams are likely to bring fewer than the regular 90 players they ordinarily bring to training camp whenever it begins, per league sources.
One source said he believed it's likely that teams will go to camp with 80-man rosters, and another source said it's "definitely not 90." A third league source said he has "heard lots of discussion about 75 players potentially instead of 90", especially with the reduction in preseason games and teams not needing as many players for camp as normal
It seems like every year there's an undrafted or under-the-radar Buckeye that stuns everyone and makes a 53-man roster, but it's looking like those opportunities aren't going to exist this season, and that sucks.
Prayers up for the guys like Robert Landers and Branden Bowen, cause lord knows they'd be making some noise if they had the shot.
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