As the NFL celebrates its 100th season this fall, technology continues to transform the sport. The league is upgrading stadiums to 5G networks, partnering with Sportradar to exclusively distribute official data for sportsbooks, connecting on-field officials with the centralized replay review headquarters, and testing a series of innovations in the background. Those experiments include the use of computer vision to identify on-field events, direct video feeds to conduct replays, and a pilot program to study how sensors embedded in mouthguards might help detect head impacts.
SportTechie spoke with NFL chief information officer Michelle McKenna to preview the technology being utilized in league operations in 2019.