Building a Digital Athlete: Using AI to rewrite the playbook on NFL player safety

This article discusses the Digital Athlete, a joint effort between the NFL and AWS that uses AI and machine learning to improve player health and safety in football.

Specifically, the article covers:

• How the Digital Athlete gathers data from various sources like sensors, video, and player tracking to build a complete view of players' experiences
• How AI is trained to analyze this data, such as using computer vision to identify helmet impacts and player movements
• The use of simulations and risk modeling to determine ideal training loads and identify injury risks for individual players
• Technologies like 3D Pose Estimation to analyze player movements that lead to injuries
• The massive scale of data processed, including millions of video frames and tracking data points per week
• Future plans to advance player modeling, detect forces causing injuries, and enable real-time risk analysis during games