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Published 11 Jan 2026· via NFL· Customer story

Advancing Player Health and Safety with the Digital Athlete

National Football League · Other · United States

Headline result

10K

Simulated seasons for Dynamic Kickoff analysis

As reported by the source; not independently verified.

Summary

The NFL uses the Digital Athlete as an injury prediction tool that leverages data and artificial intelligence to help clubs keep players healthy and performing at their best.

All 32 clubs have access to the Digital Athlete team portal, which provides daily training volume and injury risk information, as well as league-wide trends and benchmarks.

The system has also been used to inform rule changes, including the Dynamic Kickoff, by simulating 10,000 seasons' worth of games under the new rule.

The problem

  1. 01The NFL needed better ways to predict injury risk and support healthier training, recovery, and rules decisions across all 32 clubs.

What they built

  1. 01The Digital Athlete takes video and data from training, practice, and games and uses AWS technology to run millions of simulations of NFL games and scenarios.
  2. 02It provides daily training volume and injury risk information through a team portal and helps coaches and staff develop individualized prevention, training, and recovery regimens.
  3. 03The model has been used to simulate 10,000 seasons' worth of games to evaluate rule changes such as the Dynamic Kickoff.

Reported results

  1. 01All 32 clubs have access to the Digital Athlete team portal.
  2. 02The league simulated 10,000 seasons' worth of games under the Dynamic Kickoff.
  3. 03Teams use the portal daily for training volume and injury risk information.
  • Improved injury prediction and prevention
  • Enabled evidence-based rule evaluation
  • Provided league-wide team portal access
  • Delivered daily training risk insights

Source

NFL

Customer story · 11 Jan 2026

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How this deployment compares

Computed from the library · data 10 Nov 2026

National Football League has 5 deployment records in the library, from 2019 to 2026. It is one of 14 clinical analytics deployments, 1 of them in Other.

National Football League in the library

5 deployment records from National Football League, 2019–2026

  1. Dec 2019NFL and AWS Partnership to Enhance Player Health and Safety with AI and Machine LearningLivestock monitoring
  2. Feb 2024Building a digital athlete: Using AI to rewrite the playbook on NFL player safetyPredictive decision support
  3. Jan 2026This record · Clinical analytics
  4. May 2026NFL uses Microsoft Copilot and Azure AI Foundry (Azure OpenAI in Foundry Models) to accelerate scouting and post-game analysisInvestment research
  5. Jun 2026NFL game day transformation with Surface Copilot+ PCs and AI-powered Sideline Viewing System (SVS)Decision support

Too recent to judgeFollow-through is judged once a record is 1 year old; this one is 10 months old.

How National Football League uses AI: company page

Same pattern, whole library

One of 14 clinical analytics deployments

  • Other accounts for 1 of them (7%), ranking #3 of 4 industries.
  • 9 records of this pattern came before it; 3 have been published since.
  • Only 2 of the 14 put a number on the result (14%).
Provider mix
  • AWS57%
  • Microsoft43%
Most-used technology
  • Amazon SageMaker 5
  • Power BI 2
  • Azure 2
  • Microsoft Azure 2
  • AI 2
  • AWS Lambda 2

Outlined: used in this record.

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Clinical analytics analysis

Results against peers

What peers report

  • Other quantified impact161 figures, all industries · middle half 25%–180%50%median increase
  • Risk, reliability & safety13 figures, all industries · middle half 60%–90%70%median reduction
  • Quality & accuracy50 figures, all industries · middle half 22%–96%40%median increase

Peer figures are as reported by their sources; percentage claims only.

How we checked this record

Evidence tier: supported

A credible source with a named customer, but not the organization's own account.

Named organization
National Football League
Who published the source
The organization itself
Deployment status
The source does not say
Quantified result
The source reports at least one figure
Summary checked against source
5 / 5 agreement

Last re-checked 13 Jun 2026.

This record is evidence for

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