Yahoo Sports· 1h ago· 1 min read
George Kittle has been one of the NFL's loudest voices on player safety and turf , and he laid out his full argument on "Chris Simms Unbuttoned" ahead of the San Francisco 49ers ' training camp.
"What I've learned from turf is that I am significantly more sore the day after," Kittle said. "Your feet, your ankles, your knees, your hips — everything's just more sore, and it takes you a couple more days to bounce back." On grass, he said, the soreness from contact is still there, but the joint stiffness isn't. "You don't have that ankle stiffness, those knees, the hips. I've been feeling that since I was a rookie."
Kittle said the sentiment is nearly universal among the players he's talked to: "I would say 90-plus percent of players that I talk to are like, 'Oh, dude, give me grass every single day of the week.'"
Kittle isn't alone. Several other notable NFL players have publicly pushed…
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