>>63106328the largest amount of injuries especially to the head and neck nowadays and especially in brain degradation are defensive players.
The list goes like this.
1. Defensive backs
2. Linebackers
3. Wide recievers
4. Running backs that catch like wide receivers and get split out to run routes
5. Power backs(that's mostly a long term thing however)
6. Smaller defensive ends (especially if they drop back in some packages and pursue runs at a proper angle without their head on a swivel)
7. Offensive libemen (also long term and how often they catch hits without their own forward momentum during pass coverages, as well as them in the modern era playing and blocking very high)
8. Quarterbacks with no pocket awareness and who are blind to defenders (Carcrash Palmer I'm looking at you)
9. Scatbacks who are bad Barry sanders wannabes and get hit by chasing defensive players at full speed during a shitty cut a lot
10. Wedge men and blockers on kick returns
POWER GAP
999. Everyone else
1000. Quarterbacks
99999. Brady and all the babby backs
Punt returners who make stupid as fuck decisions about returns and get rekt because they refuse to call fair catches and get rekt would be number one, but they are rarely just return players and that type of idiocy during returns doesn't happen much anymore and is something that happens with little frequency, especially on kick returns.
Kick returners would be higher and on the list if the nfl didn't move kickoffs up and cause most of them to be touch backs.
The biggest things in football injurys and long term damage, is of course long term dangerous play. Long term hitting plays a part, but not as much as technique and what hits a player sees in the long term.
Linebackers and defensive backs as well as wide recievers are so high up on the list due to them catching so many hits. The wr plays extended and loose, and defensive backs and linebackers in the modern nfl catch tackles and over time get destroyed physically.
