I started writing more about wrestling before I saw your middle paragraph haha. The one thing I’ll still say is that anecdotally there seems to be more injuries in AEW than WWE, and the former only really does TV tapings while the latter works house shows during the week.

I don’t think it really applies to QBs since they still get hit a lot during a game. Just look at Cousins in The Quarterback. But maybe they throw or brace themselves differently because they expect upper-body hits within the rules