For the first time, there is a position-specific football helmet available to those in the NFL. As written by NFL.com’s Judy Battista Thursday morning, the company VICIS is making the first QB-specific helmet designed to offer them greater protection in an effort to reduce concussions and injuries. Quarterbacks in 2023 will be able to wear such a helmet.
From Battista, who outlined the changes in the hardware.
“From the outside, the quarterback helmet does not look any different. On the inside is an engineered column structure. The tiny columns might be just 1.5 millimeters in diameter, but by changing their diameter, how many there are and the stiffness of the material they are made of, engineers can modify the way the helmet absorbs impact at the location of the hit without changing the weight of the fit of the helmet.