The National Football League implemented new kickoff rules ahead of the 2025 season, hoping to see the rate of kickoff returns increase dramatically. The results paid off, with NFL kickoff stats for ...

More changes are coming to the NFL’s already heavily modified kickoff rule for the 2026 season, if the NFL competition committee gets its way. The competition committee released its requested set of ...

There were 1,157 more kickoff returns this season, which led to an increase in concussions. Justin Edmonds / Getty Images A year after its players experienced a historically low number of concussions, ...