{"id":5439,"date":"2021-02-03T15:41:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T20:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5439"},"modified":"2021-02-03T15:41:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T20:41:47","slug":"liberty-football-helmet-prototype-wins-2nd-place-in-nfl-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5439","title":{"rendered":"Liberty football helmet prototype wins 2nd place in NFL competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A football helmet developed by a Liberty University dean and his team of Ph.D. research fellows and undergraduates is one of four finalists in the NFL&rsquo;s sixth annual &ldquo;1st and Future&rdquo; pitch competition.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Mark Horstemeyer, Dean of Liberty University&rsquo;s School of Engineering, oversaw the project for the competition, designed to &ldquo;spur innovation in athlete health, safety, and performance,&rdquo; according to Liberty, whose work is associated with Genesis Helmets, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Using an approach trademarked at Liberty University that he calls &ldquo;Creationeering,&rdquo; Horstemeyer incorporated properties found in nature to design a football helmet designed to be twice as effective at preventing concussions as those currently used by the NFL.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5DDKj6d4_fI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdbj7.com\/2021\/02\/03\/liberty-football-helmet-prototype-wins-second-place-in-nfl-competition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A football helmet developed by a Liberty University dean and his team of Ph.D. research fellows and undergraduates is one of four finalists &#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5439\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liberty football helmet prototype wins 2nd place in NFL competition<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[173],"class_list":["post-5439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-liberty-football-helmet-prototype-wins-nd-place-in-nfl-competition","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-1pJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5440,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5439\/revisions\/5440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}