Chicago Bears: Why players are wearing padded helmets

The Chicago Bears offensive linemen are wearing Guardian Caps, a soft-shelled helmet cover NFL teams are trying out in an attempt to reduce the impact on players’ heads that comes with the repetitive blows of football.

Is the extra white padding on their helmets for practice a new safety precaution this year? I don't recall seeing these previous years. : r/GreenBayPackers

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