The post More And More NFL Injuries Raise Concerns About Artificial Turf appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

Even though the Los Angeles Rams are based in a good weather location, they play their home games on artificial turf. Here Seahawks Kenneth Walker III (9) is brought down by Rams Kamren Kinchens (26) and Kamren Curl (3) during third quarter action at SoFi Stadium on Sunday, November 16, 2025. (Photo by David Crane/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images) MediaNews Group via Getty Images The list of National Football League players who have gone down already this season with non-contact injuries could fill quite a Pro Bowl roster. At the quarterback position alone, you’ve got Baltimore Raven Lamar Jackson and Washington Commander Jayden Daniels suffering hamstring injuries and Cincinnati Bengal Joe Burrow and San Francisco 49er Brock Purdy suffering turf toe this season, as I covered in Forbes on October 2. And you’ve gotta wonder whether all of this will intensity the ongoing “turf” battle between players and owners over, well, artificial turf. Half the NFL stadium fields are now covered by some kind of artificial turf. Yet, the NFL Players Association director Lloyd Howell already said at a press conference in 2024 that “Ninety-two percent of our union wants grass,” meaning natural grass fields. And NFLPA President J.C. Tretter has written a letter arguing that artificial turf is significantly harder on the body than grass” and that “NFL clubs should proactively change all field surfaces to natural grass.” In fact, in June of this year, when PIX11 Sports tweeted out (or perhaps X’d out) that the artificial turf of MatLife Stadium had been temporarily replaced with natural grass for a different type of football match—what Americans call soccer—the NFLPA responded with a simple, short and somewhat snarky “Looks nice #SaferFields,” accompanied by a monocled emoji: MetLife Stadium is where the New York Giants and Jets—at least…

---

Filed under: News - @ November 17, 2025 1:27 pm