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The subject of playing surfaces in the has again become a hot topic following ' season-ending on Monday night. Many are blaming the turf at MefLife Stadium for injuring one of the biggest stars in the game, and now, new NFLPA executive director Lloyd Howell is calling for action.On Wednesday, Howell calling for all NFL stadiums to move to gra s fields. Here's his statement in its entirety:"Moving all stadium fields to high quality natural Tom Wilson Jersey gra s surfaces is the easiest decision the NFL can make."The players overwhelmingly prefer it and the data is clear that gra s is simply safer than artificial turf. It is an i sue that has been near the top of the players' list during my team visits and one I have raised with the NFL."While we know there is an investment to making this change, there is a bigger cost to everyone in our busine s if we keep losing our best players to unnece sary injuries. It makes no sense that stadiums can flip over to superior gra s surfaces when the Evgeny Kuznetsov Jersey World Cup comes, or soccer clubs come to visit for exhibition games in the summer, but inferior artificial surfaces are acceptable Martin Fehervary Jersey for our own players. This is worth the investment and it simply needs to change now."Howell is echoing what many NFL players have been saying this week. Rodgers' teammate, cornerback , posted on social media Tuesday that left tackle was following Rodgers' injury on Monday night, saying it was . Congrats . How many more players have to get hurt on ARTIFICIAL TURF??! You care more about soccer players than us. You plan to remove all artificial turf for the World Cup coming up. So clearly its feasible. Im sick of this..Do better! David Bakhtiari (@DavidBakhtiari) This is not a new i sue, but the league has maintained it's doing everything it can to protect its players -- even working closely with "biomechanical engineers," per NFL executive VP for health and safety innovation Jeff Miller."We work very closely with the NFL Players A sociation on surface research," Miller told reporters on a recent conference call. "We Brooks Orpik Jersey share all the injury information. They have all the same data we have. ... We have stadiums with natural gra s where there's a lower injury rate than synthetic surfaces, and we have synthetic surfaces where the injury rate is lower. ... Our effort is to try to drive Rod Langway Jersey down those rates on both surfaces. Hopefully in the next couple years we'll see some progre s in those spaces." Expect this playing-surface battle to continue, and it sounds like Howell is going to make this push a priority.