Youth and high school football players across the U.S. could soon be seen on Friday nights wearing a new device on top of their helmets. That new device could help reduce their risk of sustaining concussions.
Exero Labs, founded in 2016 by Ben Rizzo and former New England Patriots punter Zoltan Mesko, unveiled that device, called the EXO1, at the NFL’s 1st & Future innovation showcase earlier this month. The device uses a leaf-spring design that attaches to any standard football helmet and works to create more distance and surface area over which an impact to the head can dissipate, Rizzo told the panel of judges and crowd of entrepreneurs at the event.