re: What kind of impact will the Damar Hamlin incident cause for youth football?

That will be very critical for every youth game to have and hopefully will never have to be used.

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Outside keeping a defib handy there's little or nothing to do.

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A youth dies on that field in that situation

My 9 year old can play football when he gets to Jr High if he wants to, the football association around these parts isn’t the best.

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change or make some stupid rule.

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I haven't watched the play in awhile, but the one thing that struck me at the time was I feel like the player safety rules designed to protect offensive players actually put Hamlin in a bad situation. Now, an policy change is never 100% positive without negative, so I wouldn't say these rules are dumb on their face, but, if this was 20 years ago I think Hamlin would have been fine.

The reason is he would have been delivering the blow (and this would have increased WR injury risk). Nowadays, receivers go over the middle and the DBs corral them and throw them down. They avoid targeting and so forth. When Higgins turned that shoulder upfield to deliver a blow to the defender, Hamlin seemed to be anticipating corralling him, which left him upright, chest exposed for the freak accident.

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What kind of impact will the Damar Hamlin incident cause for youth football?

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I imagine youth football will stop requiring vaccines now.

Should be nothing. There are a millions things more dangerous to kids that we are completely ignoring atm - #1 cutting boys balls off.

A better question will be, how do we stop people from castrating kids?

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What rules would you change to prevent what freak thing happened to him?

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No covid vax for kids

NFL needs to create a referee organization that stretches all the way down to Jr High. Our experience with refs at that level was terrible. They need to be rules coaches on the field…coaches are 100% fine with a kid breaking the rules if it helps them win. Refs should hold coaches and players responsible…as it is now, kids are effectively taught to break the rules with zero checks and balances.

Children shouldnt be vaccinated anyway

If anything, it should be motivation for all schools and rec leagues to put emphasis and resources into making sure that their response to freak injuries like this is up to par. Hopefully, it leads to a renewed focus on having EMTs on standby at every game and/or requiring so many coaches or staff have current CPR training.

Response time is key in a situation like this, and the more people capable of helping the better. The likelihood of something like that happening is slim, but having more trained people on scene game in and game out can only be a plus. That also extends beyond the playing field.