Normalized claim
Clubs with access to Digital Athlete portal: 32 clubs increase
All 32 clubs have access to the Digital Athlete team portal
Advancing Player Health and Safety with the Digital Athlete
Use case typeClinical analyticsUpdated Jun 13, 2026
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.
- Organization
- National Football League
- Industry
- Other
- Location
- United States
- Published
- January 2026
Reported outcomes
10,000 seasons
Simulated seasons for Dynamic Kickoff analysisOther quantified impact
32 clubsClubs with access to Digital Athlete portal
Strategic outcomes
Risk & complianceImproved injury prediction and preventionBetter decisions & insightEnabled evidence-based rule evaluationScale & capacityProvided league-wide team portal accessCustomer experience & trustDelivered daily training risk insights
Why do we believe this?Outcome claims, sources, and evidence checks
Normalized claim
Simulated seasons for Dynamic Kickoff analysis: 10,000 seasons increase
The league simulated 10,000 seasons' worth of games under the new rule
Why do we believe this deployment?Customer identity, provider attribution, maturity, and source checks
- Customer
- National Football League
- Provider
- AWS
- Maturity
- Unknown
- Linked source
- NFL
No explicit deployment-stage evidence found.
Customer identity supportedSource describes one deploymentMaturity evidence evaluated
Primary read
Use case focus
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- 1Predictive Analytics
- 2Simulation
- 3Risk Modeling
The NFL needed better ways to predict injury risk and support healthier training, recovery, and rules decisions across all 32 clubs.
- The 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.
- It provides daily training volume and injury risk information through a team portal and helps coaches and staff develop individualized prevention, training, and recovery regimens.
- The model has been used to simulate 10,000 seasons' worth of games to evaluate rule changes such as the Dynamic Kickoff.
- All 32 clubs have access to the Digital Athlete team portal.
- The league simulated 10,000 seasons' worth of games under the Dynamic Kickoff.
- Teams use the portal daily for training volume and injury risk information.
Architecture
AWS technology powers a team portal and simulation environment that combines video and training/practice/game data to generate daily injury risk intelligence and large-scale season simulations for rules analysis.
Sources & evidence1
Evidence: Medium50/100Evidence strength
- Customer explicitly identified
- Primary source available
- Quantified outcome available
- Technical implementation details available
Type: Customer StoryPublished: Jan 11, 2026Publisher: NFLEvidence: PrimaryConfidence: High
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