NFL: Ranking every team's helmet from 'Crowning Glory' to 'Disastrous Design'

In the latest edition of our NFL ranking list and following on from uniforms and logos, we have turned our attention to team’s helmets.

Helmets, like a lot of other things in the NFL, have come a long way over the years from where they were in the early days of the sport. Having evolved from being made out of leather and only coming in some very boring colours, today they have taken on a life of their own.

Much like team’s jerseys and logos, they give teams a little bit of personality and can with some teams be seen as equally as important as the rest of their uniform when it comes to setting them apart from the rest.

The Cleveland Browns for instance have used their helmet as their primary logo for a large part of their history, and the Dallas Cowboy’s use of the star on the side of their helmet sets such a striking image that you know instantly what team it is even if it doesn’t say the word ‘Cowboys’.

This year is something of an important one for helmets around the league, as the NFL has scrapped the rule limiting players to one helmet per season, which was designed for safety purposes to stop players having to switch for one-off games.

However with that rule now dropped, teams can now incorporate a second design into their alternate uniforms, something that some teams have jumped at the opportunity to use:

New Helmet Drop….