{"id":6624,"date":"2011-05-12T14:41:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T18:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6624"},"modified":"2011-05-12T14:41:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T18:41:30","slug":"study-shows-nfl-players-wore-low-rated-helmets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6624","title":{"rendered":"Study Shows  NFL Players Wore  Low-Rated Helmets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; Nearly 40 percent of NFL players last season wore a helmet model that got the second-lowest rating for reducing the risk of concussions in a study by Virginia Tech researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Riddell&#8217;s VSR-4 helmet received just one star in a study of football helmets led by Virginia Tech professor of biomedical engineering,<strong> Stefan Duma<\/strong> and released Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Another Riddell model &#8212; the Revolution Speed &#8212; was the only helmet that earned five stars, the top rating.<\/p>\n<p>Five models &#8212; two made by Riddell, two by Schutt and one by Xenith &#8212; received four stars.<\/p>\n<p>According to Riddell, 38 percent of NFL players wore the low-rated VSR-4 in 2010. The company also said 39 percent wore one of the various models that fall under the Riddell Revolution name or the new Riddell 360.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; Nearly 40 percent of NFL players last season wore a helmet model that got the second-lowest rating for reducing the risk of concussions in a study by Virginia Tech researchers. Riddell&#8217;s VSR-4 helmet received just one star in a study of football helmets led by Virginia Tech professor of biomedical engineering, Stefan Duma [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}