Here are the top seven technology areas that impacted the NFL this season: 1. Football tracking In the fourth year of its five-year deal with the NFL, Zebra Technologies was able to place in tracking chips in all game balls. That enables the gathering of data including the velocity and rotation rate of the football. […]
This spring, football players vying in an instructional league for a shot at the NFL will be wearing a high-tech helmet designed to protect their heads from the hard hits they’ll inevitably encounter on their hopeful path to the pros. That’s due to an exclusive partnership the helmet’s maker, VICIS, signed with The Spring League. […]
Notre Dame’s storied football program announced this week that the Fighting Irish would be the first team to outfit the majority of its roster with the new VICIS Zero1 helmet, which received the highest safety marks in a joint NFL/NFLPA biomechanical study of 33 helmets. The multilayered design works to absorb impact and mitigate the […]
VICIS is now making its top-rated Zero1 helmet widely available to high school players for the 2018 season through a newly opened online marketplace. The Zero1, which a joint NFL/NFLPA study deemed best for reducing head-impact severity, made its debut on NFL fields earlier this year, with high-profile players such as Kansas City Chiefs quarterback […]
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Alex Smith stole the show in the NFL’s season opener, throwing four touchdown passes to lead his team to a road win against the defending Super Bowl champion New England Patriots. Smith did so while serving as one of the first players to wear the Vicis ZERO1 helmet in an NFL […]
