One of the safest sports I've seen is oddly flag football. Especially for youth. There's typically no blocking allowed at the youth level, and obviously no ta

One of the safest sports I've seen is oddly flag football. Especially for youth. There's typically no blocking allowed at the youth level, and obviously no tackling. Of the youth sports I'm involved with flag football and baseball are the two safest (especially if you're not a pitcher). Then basketball sits in the middle as pretty safe. The main worry in basketball is running into someone going for the ball. I'd put soccer and tackle football as the most dangerous (tackle football being more dangerous). If they eliminate heading out of youth soccer, it would move it into the basketball level of safety. I'm not sure there is any way to change tackle football to make it reasonably safe for kids.