Following Aaron Rodgers’s season-ending injury, uproar is growing over the prevalence of artificial turf throughout the NFL. Yet commissioner Roger Goodell claims that some players actually prefer turf to natural grass.
“You have other players who like playing on the turf field because it’s faster,” Goodell said during a Wednesday appearance on ESPN’s First Take, per Sports Illustrated’s Albert Breer. “So you’ve got mixed opinions. What we want to go on is science, we want to go on what’s the best from an injury standpoint.”
Goodell’s comment came shortly after NFL Players Association executive director Lloyd Howell called for all 32 NFL teams to use natural grass for their playing surfaces.
