Are you ready for some football technology?

As usual, the NFL continues to evolve with new technology. Here is new stuff for this season.

Hawk-Eye which has helped tennis, cricket, soccer and other sports with replays is now coming to NFL football - to help accelerate instant replay and increase accuracy.

Hawk-Eye is best known for providing visual tracking aids for tennis matches, which help quickly determine whether a ball is in or out of bounds. The company won't be doing something similar for the NFL, but will be providing the league with camera systems that will offer additional angles for more accurate replay review.

AWS was used to help develop the schedule for this season.

The 272-game schedule the NFL released on Wednesday took a completely different journey to completion with computers from Amazon Web Services negotiating the trillions of possibilities on what day, what time and what network to play each game and officials at the league looking at more than 80,000 of them before making a final choice.

More teams are using AI for scouting, training and even during live play

"Some organizations are deploying computer vision to study player movements. These systems chart subtle moves by various body parts in an effort to improve speed, reduce unnecessary or inefficient steps, and improve overall performance. Small imperfections in gait, velocity, or turns may increase susceptibility to injury or reduce one’s time in the 40-yard dash. With player performance measured down to the hundredths of seconds, seemingly minute shifts in timing or movements may mean the difference between being drafted in the openings rounds or not being drafted at all."

Fan engagement keeps evolving

For the 2021 preseason, fans of these nine teams can use the Versus XEO Platform to play custom interactive games in team apps on their mobile devices while they watch and cheer for their favorite teams.

NBC has provided Sunday Night Football a tech upgrade

NBC Sports shot a new opening for its football broadcast — the nation’s most-watched regular TV series — that puts singer Carrie Underwood at a virtual football tailgate while performing “Waiting All Day For Sunday Night.” The shoot was conducted at an Industrial Light & Magic sound stage using virtual technology recently utilized in “The Mandalorian.”

Of course, broadcast technology keeps evolving