The Chiefs are in Jacksonville. The Bengals are home against the Ravens. The Bills host the Raiders. It’s not must-win time, but it sure would be better than falling to 0-2.
Rodgers’s injury reignited the debate over the safety of games being played on artificial turf fields. Lloyd Howell, the new executive director of the NFL Players Association, called for all teams to switch to natural grass fields.“Moving all stadium fields to high quality natural grass surfaces is the easiest decision the NFL can make,” Howell said in a statement. “The players overwhelmingly prefer it and the data is clear that grass is simply safer than artificial turf.
The NFL has maintained that the injury data is not as conclusive as the players have portrayed. On Achilles’ injuries in particular, the league said last week that there is no statistical difference between the rates of those injuries occurring on artificial turf and on natural grass fields, dating from 2015. The NFL also pointed out that of the two Achilles’ injuries suffered by players during the season’s opening weekend, one of them occurred on turf and one occurred on natural grass .
“If it was a noncontact injury, I think that’d be something to discuss, obviously,” Saleh said. “But that was kind of a forcible [tackle]. I think that was trauma-induced. I do know the players prefer grass.”“While we know there is an investment to making this change, there is a bigger cost to everyone in our business if we keep losing our best players to unnecessary injuries,” Howell said.
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