Thursday 28th November 2024

Officials with Riddell are on the Iowa campus this week as the Hawkeyes will become the first college football team to wear customized helmets.

The hope is they will reduce head injuries and the helmets will feature eight customized pieces of padding inside designed to absorb impact.

More than a dozen Iowa players worse customized helmets on an experimental basis last season and none suffered a concussion.

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