The new snugger fitting NCAA football jerseys should help with the newly enacted rule prohibiting the “horse collar.”  Starting this season, the NCAA will assess a penalty when a runner is yanked to the ground from the inside collar of his shoulder pads or football jersey.

The ban on the horse collar was enacted to help reduce injuries to players.  Rogers Redding, NCAA football secretary-rules editor and coordinator of football officials for the Southeastern Conference, said, “What we’re hearing from trainers and physicians is we’re getting some back injuries when the ball carrier is immediately snapped to the ground by being jerked quickly….”

The cut of the new NCAA football jerseys should make it more difficult to get inside the jersey and impose compliance with the new rule.

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