When the Super Bowl kicks off Sunday, a constant scanning for injury will unfold off the field. Why it matters: Amidst the NFL's ongoing reckoning with head injuries and continued scrutiny of the long ...

We knew the NFL's supposedly rigid concussion protocol — ostensibly instituted to protect NFL players from themselves after suffering head injuries — was a farce a long time ago. But the way the ...

Concussions have become a hot-button topic in the NFL world over the last decade-plus, with hits to the head—and both their short- and long-term effects—having been proven to have a significant impact ...

The court officials overseeing the NFL's $1 billion-plus settlement fund for concussion-related injuries have barred five law firms from handling any more claims from former players, after finding ...

Something was clearly wrong with Jaxson Dart when he hit his head on the grass in Chicago on Sunday. When he laid motionless and did not reach out for the football after his third-quarter fumble. When ...

The NFL omitted concussion cases when it downplayed the effects of head injuries on players based on studies conducted from 1996 through 2001, according to a report by The New York Times. More than ...

A UNC-Chapel Hill study conducted by the Matthew Gfellar Center studied more than 1,500 former NFL players found that two of the most commonly used ways to estimate head injury risk, years played and ...

The court officials overseeing the NFL’s $1 billion-plus settlement fund for concussion-related injuries have barred five law firms from handling any more claims from former players, after finding ...