Under the Helmet
By Brianna Van Groll ’28
CIV 110: Storytelling and Change
For this assignment, students were asked to create a podcast showcasing a person (or, in this case, people) who they thought deserved more recognition. This student selected three current or former NFL players she knew personally—players that aren’t the stars of their team, and therefore face a number of challenges we might not think about when we imagine an NFL player: challenges with career instability, harassment on social media, and more. The podcast is professionally constructed and challenges our assumptions about what goes on, as its title suggests, “under the helmet.”
-Dr. Kate Nesbit