Safety · Houston Texans

Jalen Pitre

No. 5 · 5th season

The helmet company that keeps players safer just picked its first face

Guardian Cap makes the soft-shell covers you've probably seen sitting on top of helmets during practice — the ones designed to cut down on the hits the head absorbs before the season even starts. They've never had an athlete put their name on the product. Now they do.

Jalen Pitre plays safety for the Houston Texans, which means his whole job is collision. He closes space, he delivers contact, and he does it at a level that gets noticed. The fact that a head-protection brand went looking for a face and landed on a defensive back makes a certain kind of sense.

Guardian Cap named Pitre their first-ever signature athlete. Not one of many. The first.

That is a small word with some weight behind it. Someone had to be the person a young safety brand bet on when they had one bet to make. They picked him.

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