Media Day for the Superbowl usually consists of vanilla questions being lobbed at players and coaches, who retaliate by drawing from their bottomless reservoir of cliches and cookie-cutter answers. New England running back BenJarvus Green-Ellis, however, arrived with a new toy for NFL Player Safety officials to play with.
Green-Ellis brought with him a special chinstrap called the Impact Indicator, which measures the amount of force at which a player's helmet has just collided. If the chinstrap lights up, the hit was possibly enough to cause a concussion, and trainers know to check the player out before letting him back on the field.
Green-Ellis plans to wear the new chinstrap, designed by Battle Sports Science, during the Superbowl, and stressed the importance of preventing concussions in players while noting the potentially life-altering affects of such injuries. He specifically mentioned how important it is to prevent these injuries in younger players.
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