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NFL and NFLPA take noteworthy step towards player safety with field surface committee

Hopefully more than a symbolic move to improve some of the poorer playing surfaces around the league.

It's certainly been a good week for player safety in the NFL. On Monday, the league and players' union announced that concussions would start being taken more seriously following a string of incidents last season where teams rushed potentially concussed players back on the field without a proper examination. Teams can now be fined and stripped of draft picks for violating concussion protocols. Obviously, this doesn't solve everything, but it shows the league is growing a spine and sort of giving a damn about concussions.