Ramon Foster is the Pittsburgh Steelers’ player representative for the NFLPA, so this probably should come as a great shock, but the 10th-year offensive lineman is in support of the league’s new rule this season that is designed to ‘take the helmet out of the game’.
The lowering of the helmet rule, which makes it a penalty if any player—offense or defense—lowers his head for the purpose of initiating contact with another player—is ostensibly an angle toward making the helmet strictly what it was meant to be: a protective device.
“I hate heady guys”, Foster told Ed Bouchette of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette regarding players who utilize their helmets as offensive weapons.