National Football League

NFL game day transformation with Surface Copilot+ PCs and AI-powered Sideline Viewing System (SVS)

National Football League · Decision support · Microsoft

The National Football League updated its Sideline Viewing System for all NFL clubs, using Surface Copilot+ PCs to give coaches and players real-time, AI-powered tools during game day. The system helps analyze plays, identify formations, and turn complex data into faster, more actionable insights on the sidelines and in the coaches' booth.

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NFL uses Microsoft Copilot and Azure AI Foundry (Azure OpenAI in Foundry Models) to accelerate scouting and post-game analysis

National Football League · Investment research · Microsoft

The National Football League (NFL) uses Microsoft solutions to help clubs optimize post-game data analysis, practice time, and offseason player evaluations. Club personnel use Microsoft 365 Copilot to access critical data instantly, improve prospect evaluations, and support draft preparation. At the NFL Combine, clubs use Microsoft Copilot to access real-time insights, compare top prospects instantly, and make faster decisions for football operations.

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Advancing Player Health and Safety with the Digital Athlete

National Football League · Clinical analytics · AWS

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.

Building a digital athlete: Using AI to rewrite the playbook on NFL player safety

National Football League · Predictive decision support · AWS

The NFL and AWS built the Digital Athlete to improve player health and safety by combining game, practice, tracking, video, and sensor data. The system uses AI and machine learning to create a complete view of player experience, run millions of simulations, identify injury risk, and support personalized injury prevention, training, and recovery. The platform uses synchronized 38-camera 5K 60fps capture and computer vision to generate 3D pose estimation and virtual skeletons for movement analysis. It processes millions of video frames and hundreds of millions of player position data points weekly, and is used across all 32 NFL clubs.

NFL and AWS Partnership to Enhance Player Health and Safety with AI and Machine Learning

National Football League · Livestock monitoring · AWS

The NFL partnered with AWS to develop the "Digital Athlete" platform, using AI, machine learning, and computer vision to analyze player health and safety data and predict injury risk. AWS technologies such as Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Rekognition, and AWS AI/ML services were applied to model game scenarios and concussion-causing forces. The collaboration involves leveraging historical and real-time player data, video feeds, and environmental factors to improve injury treatment, prevention, and rehabilitation. Advanced computer vision models were developed to detect concussions, and the partnership expanded the NFL's use of AWS for real-time NFL Next Gen Stats data analysis.