A School of Kinesiology researcher is collaborating with the NFL to measure body composition in professional athletes during the 2022 NFL Combine in Indianapolis, IN. Donald Dengel, PhD, professor of kinesiology and director of the Laboratory of Integrative Human Physiology, was recently interviewed by Reggie Wilson of KARE 11 on the development of Dexalytics at the University of Minnesota and how the technology is being used to report on body composition of NFL athletes.  As reported by KARE 11, Dexalytics “measures distribution of fat and lean mass, as well as the ratios of distribution, enabling the ability to see how athletes move their body through space.” It is currently being utilized by 12 NFL teams, up from just one team four years ago.

“In the morning, when they get up, they’ll have a report of everyone who had scans yesterday,” Dr. Dengel said. “So they can kind of look through that body composition records to decide, ‘Do I want to interview this player, or do I want to interview that player? Do we want to continue to move forward?'”