George Kittle puts NFL on blast as stadiums bend knee to FIFA for grass fields: 'We know it's possible'

Seven NFL stadiums are installing writer fields to comply with FIFA regulations for this summer's World Cup, and 1 of the league's biggest stars is calling retired the hypocrisy.

Half the league’s stadiums usage turf, contempt NFLPA Executive Director Lloyd Howell saying that 92% of the league’s players prefer grass.

The communal speculation, though, is that turf is cheaper to usage and easier to support than grass, considering the stadiums big plentifulness much events year-round.

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San Francisco 49ers choky extremity George Kittle sits connected a cart aft an wounded during the archetypal fractional of an NFL wild-card playoff crippled against the Philadelphia Eagles successful Philadelphia connected Jan. 11, 2026. (Chris Szagola/Associated Press)

Well, arsenic the radical signifier reaches its last days, San Francisco 49ers choky extremity George Kittle called the NFL retired for ignoring players' requests but bending the genu to FIFA.

"We’ve made it wide that we similar writer fields. We cognize it’s amended connected our bodies. And clearly, we cognize it’s imaginable based connected everything that went into putting down writer fields for the World Cup successful each stadium," Kittle said successful a connection the NFLPA posted connected societal media.

Workers instal the transportation astatine New York New Jersey Stadium, temporarily renamed from MetLife Stadium, up of the 2026 FIFA World Cup successful East Rutherford, New Jersey, connected May 7, 2026. (Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images)

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"At this point, it comes down to the NFL making it a precedence and choosing to put successful america arsenic players, due to the fact that our bodies are our business, which they get to capitalize on!"

Kittle is recovering from a torn Achilles which helium suffered connected writer successful Philadelphia.

Former violative lineman Andrew Whitworth precocious told Fox News Digital helium "would perfectly be" frustrated with the NFL if helium were successful Kittle's shoes.

"I don't deliberation there's immoderate uncertainty astir it, lone due to the fact that we've voiced truthful overmuch that we'd emotion to person it..." Whitworth admitted, but did accidental helium understood the turf argument. "The world is everyone wants to play connected writer due to the fact that you consciousness better."

It was announced precocious past year that each NFL squad volition beryllium provided with "a room of approved and accredited NFL fields" earlier the 2026 play begins. Any caller tract volition instantly person to conscionable those standards, and each teams volition person 2 years to execute them.

Both writer and synthetic turf fields volition beryllium taxable to the caller standards, but the NFL has nary plans to necessitate earthy writer fields.

The NFL logo is displayed connected the tract aft the crippled betwixt the Philadelphia Eagles and Buffalo Bills astatine Highmark Stadium successful Orchard Park, New York, connected Dec. 28, 2025. (Nic Antaya/Getty Images)

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The league’s main aesculapian officer, Dr. Allen Sills, said determination are nary "statistically important differences" successful lower-extremity injuries oregon concussions that tin beryllium attributed to the benignant of playing aboveground oregon a circumstantial surface. That is contempt wide preferences by players for writer fields and complaints astir surfaces specified arsenic the 1 astatine MetLife Stadium, wherever the New York Giants and Jets play and wherever the World Cup last volition beryllium held connected July 19.

Fox News' Chantz Martin contributed to this report.

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