AHSAA Medical Director Maintains Football 'Still Safe Sport' in Wake of Two Deaths

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Following the recent deaths of two Alabama high school football players, the Alabama High School Athletic Assocation medical director James Robinson maintains that the sport of football is safe.

"Football is still safe," Robinson told AL.com. "If you look at the data from the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research, you will see that death rates remain at a fairly stable level. In 2023, there were 16 deaths at all levels. Ten were medically related, three were traumatic and three were not football related or unknown. At the high school level, four were medically related and three were related to traumatic head injuries. This is out of 4.2 million participants at all levels. While we had one traumatic head injury death and what seems like one medical death in Alabama, I do not know the numbers for the rest of the country. It is unusual to have two deaths already this early.”

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