Parents want padded helmets, no tackling after football deaths

(NewsNation) — There's a propulsion for much safety measures connected the shot field aft respective young players died successful the past month.

According to NPR, astatine slightest 7 deaths involving students astatine oregon aft practices and games were reported successful August.

One of these was a 13-year-old shot subordinate successful West Virginia named Cohen Craddock who died aft suffering encephalon trauma portion making a tackle during signifier astatine his mediate school. On the aforesaid day, Caden Tellier, 16, of Alabama, suffered a fatal encephalon wounded aft a game.

Cohen's father, Ryan Craddock said his lad had blain bleeding and swelling. Now, helium wants to spot schools connect padded caput protectors called Guardian Caps to athletes' helmets, thing the National Football League already does.

Ryan Craddock told the Associated Press that helium doesn't deliberation we request to bash distant with football, but much information measures are needed to support kids.

"I deliberation that the Guardian headdress could person helped successful this situation, possibly adjacent prevented, the decease of my child," Ryan Craddock said. "If we could larn from the unfortunate incidental with my lad to assistance 1 different kid, it's worthy it."

Since 2022 there's been a 50% alteration successful concussions among players who person worn the soft-shell caput covers successful practice, the NFL says.

The National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research says determination were 16 football-related deaths past twelvemonth among the millions of athletes who vie successful younker and assemblage football.

Tackle versus emblem football

Proposals successful idiosyncratic states to prohibition tackle shot for younger children during a captious play of their encephalon improvement person gotten small traction.

In New York, a lawmaker tried for 10 years to enact this rule, with nary action. In January, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said helium would not motion a akin bill if it were to scope his desk.

Still, younker information successful tackle football has been declining for years, the AP reports, and efforts to promote young boys to instrumentality up emblem shot are growing. It's already go fashionable among girls and is adjacent sanctioned arsenic an Olympic athletics for men and women astatine the 2028 Los Angeles Games.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.