NFL Exec: Thursday Flex Schedule 'Not a Concern from a Health and Safety Perspective'

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 Fischer NFL Exec VP Jeff Miller confirms our report on conference call, says NFL has no data showing injuries are more common on short rest. "Playing those…