FILE - New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers warms up before playing against the Buffalo Bills in an NFL football game, Sept. 11, 2023, in East Rutherford, N.J. On Tuesday, April 9, 2024, Aaron Rodgers acknowledged during a podcast interview this week he briefly thought his playing career could be over after he tore his left Achilles tendon in the New York Jets’ season opener.
“It’s not just team doctors or athletic trainers, all these different disciplines really see themselves as part of our health and safety effort,” Dr. Allen Sills, the NFL’s chief medical officer, told the AP. “Clubs see themselves very holistically and nowadays, as coaches start to plan practice schedules and start to plan training camp, they really engage these different disciplines and they do it through the lens of what might be driving injury.
“There’s a certain maturity to the work that’s been going on in the sports, medical and innovation space that requires information sharing with all the clubs with greater frequency and more depth than I think we ever have before,” NFL executive Jeff Miller said. “As the combine continues to get bigger and as disciplines become more subspecialty, how do we increase our level of interdisciplinary collaboration so if an athlete comes in and wants to wear these cleats, when you look at the injury history of the foot and ankle and you look at how they train with the sports medicine and how they fuel from the dietitian, all those components should have a say at the table,” Williams said.