Sarah Weissman

My name is Sarah Weissman and I am a senior. This is my third year in the Science Research Program. After beginning to play flag football I became interested in sports related injuries. I decided to research how legislation can impact sport-related concussions in student athletes. As I researched sport-related concussions, I became more interested in concussions in NFL players. I researched how NFL concussion protocols have impacted the number of concussions in NFL players. I collected data on concussions in NFL players by position, week of the NFL season, and over the course of different NFL seasons. I examined this data and found that there was a statistically significant decrease in the average number of concussions per game after the implementation of the revised NFL Concussion Diagnosis and Management Protocol in 2017.