Food for thought? all these injuries and the reduction in contact drills?

[Anyong Bluth]

May seem counterintuitive, but reps are important and with the limited full pad practices, going live and reconditioning your body for the hits after extended time may be a culprit in some of this? I'm not saying I fully buy into the theory, and maybe the number of injuries is par for tue course, but it seems like there has been a spike in the numbers this year so far- at least I seem to have come across a lot more media reports of guys going down across the league so far?