NFL owners will vote next week on whether to add flexibility to late-season Thursday night schedules, and Jeff Miller, the league's vice president of communications, public affairs and policy, said Friday that the possible adjustment is "not a concern from a health and safety perspective."
"... Over the course of the last several years now, we have not seen a differential injury rate on Thursday night games or, said more precisely, on games played on short rest compared to games played on longer rest," Miller said on a conference call.
Ben FischerNFL Exec VP Jeff Miller confirms our report on conference call, says NFL has no data showing injuries are more common on short rest.