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Carroll: Grass for each NFL stadiums 'safest for the players' (0:33)
Pete Carroll says he'd similar to spot a adjacent reexamination of whether NFL stadiums should exclusively usage earthy grass. (0:33)
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Sarah BarshopESPN Staff Writer
- Covered the Packers for ESPN Milwaukee
- Marquette University graduate
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- When asked whether helium has a penchant for playing connected a turf tract compared to a earthy writer field, Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Cooper Kupp didn't hesitate.
"It's not adjacent close," Kupp said Thursday. "I cognize there's worldly going astir the league close now, there's immoderate issues. Hands down, we should beryllium playing connected grass. Hands down, we should beryllium connected grass. And that's each I'm going to say."
The question astir playing connected artificial turf was asked aft Seattle Seahawks receiver DK Metcalf and Los Angeles Chargers cornerback J.C. Jackson each near Sunday's crippled astatine SoFi Stadium with genu injuries, some connected noncontact plays.
SoFi Stadium, wherever some the Rams and Chargers play, has an artificial turf field. Fourteen of the NFL's 30 stadiums usage an artificial surface.
Kupp was past asked if the turf astatine SoFi Stadium was immoderate different, and helium rapidly replied, "We should beryllium connected grass."
On Wednesday, Seahawks manager Pete Carroll said the contented is thing "we decidedly request to look astatine this truly earnestly successful the offseason again."
"It's been a treatment before," Carroll said. "We've got to bash what's right, and we've got to bash what's safest for the players, and we've got to marque those choices. I would lb connected the drum for that."
In 2020, aft San Francisco 49ers manager Kyle Shanahan complained astir the artificial aboveground astatine MetLife Stadium, NFL Players Association president JC Tretter called for each NFL teams to power to earthy writer to trim the hazard of injury.
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