Most importantly, a team is going to have to figure out a contract for Beckham. 1, a great tight end in Dallas Goedert and a fantastic second-year player in DeVonta Smith. And similar to the 'get in where you fit in' scheme he enjoyed with the Rams last year, the Eagles would offer something similar with A.J. The 8-0 Eagles are obviously contending now and very likely will in the coming years. You have a young, ascending quarterback in Jalen Hurts who just about anyone in the league would want to play with.

You have a team in a major market like Philly. This past season the data showed almost no difference between grass versus turf, and I'm told those numbers remained steady during this year's preseason. For decades there was no question that natural grass was the safer playing surface. Essentially, it is much cheaper to install a synthetic field once every two to three years than maintaining and replacing natural grass while keeping the same volume of events.Īsk just about any NFL player past or present and they'll tell you they prefer to play on natural grass. These turf fields have grown more popular as NFL stadiums have transformed over the years from football-only (or football-mostly) event spaces to concert venues and uses for other sporting events. Synthetic surfaces have a lifespan in the NFL between two to three years. Though the committee didn't give a recommendation on what to do with slit film turf, that didn't mean the union couldn't take its own stand. Bank Stadium there are between 12 to 18 lower extremity injuries.Ī joint committee of experts met with representatives from the NFL and NFLPA via Zoom on Nov. There are two to three more lower-extremity injuries per year per surface on slit film, which means that across MetLife Stadium, Ford Field, Lucas Oil Stadium, Paycor Stadium, Caesars Superdome and U.S. While the NFL admits that lower-extremity injuries are up on slit film surfaces, there's more to it. Wrote Tretter: 'The slit film playing surface has statistically higher in-game injury rates compared to all other surfaces for each of the following: non-contact injuries, missed time injuries, lower extremity injuries and foot and ankle injuries.' Union president JC Tretter called on the league to immediately remove and ban slit film turf in the six NFL stadiums that have it installed. On Saturday, the NFL Players Association went on the offensive. Essentially, there are hardly more lower-extremity injuries on turf than grass. Last Wednesday, the NFL released a chart showing how the rate of lower-extremity injuries on natural grass versus synthetic turf fields has a 'statistically insignificant' difference. The debate over playing surfaces is resurfacing in the NFL.

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