Alternative NFL Helmets Concepts Created By AI

Published on September 6, 2023
nfl-helmets-aiWith the introduction of the capabilities of artificial intelligence, many people have begun to experiment with what AI can do for art and design. Some of the most popular generative AI programs for design include Midjourney and DALL-E. These programs have led to many fun experimentations and images that have been shared all around the internet. One person decided to see what would be produced by AI in terms of reimagining NFL helmets. Here are some of the results, what do you think?

Arizona Cardinals

In 2022, the Cardinals launched a new set of uniforms, and unfortunately, most fans didn’t seem to be such fans. The team’s primary helmet is white with the cardinal head, but this AI version gives an idea for a two-toned helmet instead, with the cardinal blending into the red segment of the helmet.

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Indianapolis Colts

The Indianapolis Colts helmets are known for their signature blue horseshoe symbol, but in this reimagining takes a very different take, with an actual cobalt blue horse adorning the helmet along with a cobalt and gold stripe along the top to back, and finished with a gold face mask, giving the helmet a regal feel.

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New England Patriots

The New England Patriots have one of the most recognized logos in the NFL, so it would be a pretty radical move to change it. This AI rendition of the helmet imagines the classic logo on a navy blue helmet with red accents, and metallic red face mask for an overall sleek look that changes things up from the usual silver helmet.

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Chicago Bears

The Chicago Bears’ current helmet is simple but classic: dark navy blue with the iconic “C” logo. This AI rendition takes quite a lot of risks, with a some texture added to the navy blue that is almost smoke-like, and a bright orange stripe across the top of the helmet, and a metallic gold face mask. Fans of the classic will probably not be into this take.

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Atlanta Falcons

This AI take on the Atlanta Falcons’ helmet takes a reverse approach from the current helmet, which features a black helmet emblazoned with the fanned out black and red falcon logo. This rendition features a white helmet with the logo as well as a red strip detail. While this one is not necessarily better than the black helmet, perhaps it could be added into the rotation as a nice change.

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Carolina Panthers

The Carolina Panthers are already used to a lot of criticism from fans about their helmets, as the plain silver helmet with the panther logo slapped on was definitely not appreciated. However, this AI version introduces a much more interesting version, with an almost coppery gold helmet featuring the logo and turquoise accents and a dark metallic face mask.

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Washington Commanders

The Washington Commanders have gone through a lot of rebranding over the past few years, with some saying that their new logo is just too simple, with a maroon helmet and simple “W” logo on it. This AI version makes a change to the “W” font, adds the word “Washington” to the visor, and deepens the color of the helmet to more of a burgundy. The changes are subtle but nice.

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Minnesota Vikings

This AI take on the Minnesota Vikings helmet is by far the most daring, featuring literal horns instead of the animated version on the current helmet. While it looks incredibly cool, there’s no way that this design would actually ever be approved by the NFL. However, who knows what can be possible in the future, maybe this is a glimpse into some more creative styles that we can look forward to n the future?

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Cleveland Browns

The Cleveland Browns have a simple helmet that is mainly an orange helmet head with a black and white stripe across the top and a silver face mask. This AI version doesn’t make any drastic changes, it features a bit more of a swirl than a stripe, and eliminates the white altogether. The face mask is also a metallic orange, which may not be the best choice.

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Denver Broncos

The Denver Broncos have experienced some outcries from fans lately, as some have not liked the changes made in its current rendition and prefer older designs. This AI re-imagination features a lighter blue helmet with the bronco logo and orange accents, including a stripe and a metallic orange face mask.

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Jacksonville Jaguars

The current Jacksonville Jaguars helmet is pretty straightforward, a black helmet with a black face mask featuring the jaguar logo on the side. This AI rendition takes things to a whole other level, with a striking turquoise pattern adorning the black helmet and a fiercer version of the jaguar and a gold face mask to finish it off.

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers

The current Tampa Bay Buccaneers helmet is a metallic brown with the pirate flag logo on it, which means that this AI take is not extremely different. However, the differences are in the details, with more texture featured on the helmet’s design, and some more intensity added to the skull on the flag, as well as a metallic gold face mask.

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Cincinnati Bengals

The Cincinnati Bengals have had two helmets with tiger stripes on them recently, one orange helmet with black stripes, and the other a white helmet with black stripes. This AI version takes things in a totally different direction, with a black helmet featuring orange stripes and a fierce tiger added on to boot. It’s finished off with a black and orange face mask.

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Philadelphia Eagles

Currently, the Philadelphia Eagles have a turquoise helmet featuring the eagles’ wings on it. This AI version isn’t so drastically different but it does add some interesting texture to the helmet itself so that it almost resembles the textures on a bird’s feather. The bronze face mask adds another subtle touch of color, but it is not part of the team’s colors.

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Green Bay Packers

When it comes to a classic, it’s hard to stay too far. While the original Packers helmet is bright yellow with the iconic white and green “G,” this AI version is similar, but with a white helmet instead. The stripe on top is pretty much the same as the original, but with a yellow stripe instead of a white one, and the face mask is green just as in the original.

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Detroit Lions

In this case, the AI redo is wildly different from the original helmet. The Detroit Lions’ current helmets are a bit lackluster, with a silver helmet adorned with the blue lion logo. This AI version is much more intimidating, with an aggressive lion head featuring an icy blue eye and sharp tooth, a bright blue helmet overall, and a gold face mask for a simple accent.

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New York Jets

The current New York Jets helmet features the simple green logo with the team name and football on a black helmet. This AI version takes things to a very unexpected place, with a far more complex logo on an emerald green background and a black face mask.

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San Francisco 49ers

The San Francisco 49ers have a pretty recognizable helmet, with the iconic red circular logo and “SF” letters on a gold background. This AI rendition gives an interesting idea for a bit of a change, with a two toned gold and red hemet still featuring the original logo but a bit of a darker overall color palettes, and a gold face mask.

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Tennessee Titans

The current Tennessee Titans helmet is navy blue with the teams’ logo consisting of the “T” surrounded by a meteor and blue and red flames. We are not really sure where the AI came up with this logo, and while we admit that it is fierce and intimidating, we’re not sure what the connection is with the Titans. Still, the light blue helmet and navy blue face mask are a nice color combination.

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Los Angeles Chargers

Currently, the Los Angeles Chargers have a white helmet with the lightening bolt logo across the top and a yellow face mask. The current helmet is quite effective, but this AI take is an interesting design idea perhaps for an alternate. This helmet has a black gradient color with the same lightning logo and a black face mask. It is quite sleek.

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Buffalo Bills

This AI version is not so wildly different from the actual helmet, which is white with the blue and red buffalo logo and a white face mask. This take adds a lot more blue, with the helmet being a bright cobalt color, with the same logo placement and red and blue stripe on the top. The metallic red face mask is a nice touch.

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New Orleans Saints

Currently, the New Orleans Saints have a black helmet with its gold Fleur de Lis logo on the side, as well as a textured stripe on top. This AI version gives the helmet a two-tone background with white and gold, and a black stripe across the top and the logo with reversed black and gold coloring.

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Kansas City Chiefs

The Kansas City Chiefs’ helmet is also pretty simple: red helmet, logo onthe side, white face mask. AI took things in a bit of a crazy direction, keeping the helmet red but changing up the logo a bit and adding some gold accents all around, which is a bit of a strange touch. The face mask is now instead red, which makes it feel like there’s a little too much red going on.

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Dallas Cowboys

The Dallas Cowboys also have a pretty iconic helmet, with its simple silver background and navy blue star with white outlining on the side. The AI rendition takes some liberties, changing the helmet to a blue color with some gold flecks, and adding a silver border to the current logo. Perhaps the original contrast of the logo and helmet of the original works better.

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Miami Dolphins

The Miami Dolphins’ helmet is white with its simple logo, and this AI version took things to a truly crazy place. First of all, the dolphin logo looks a bit like a deranged shark, and there is some interesting detailing that is perhaps meant to look like water splashing, which is definitely an interesting idea but maybe could see some improvements in execution. The metallic orange face mask is a nice touch though.

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Seattle Seahawks

The Seattle Seahawks helmet is a dark navy blue with the seahawk logo prominently featured on the side. This AI version takes the lime green detail from the eye of the original Seahawks logo and uses it as a background color, which is definitely an interesting design choice. It is a bit overwhelming in the final result, with the original definitely making more of a statement without bring too busy to the eye.

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Houston Texans

Currently, the Houston Texans alternate between a dark navy helmet with the Texans logo on it with a red one that’s pretty similar. This AI version doesn’t take things in much a different direction, but instead uses a white helmet and adds in a navy and red stripe across the top. For some reason, the AI also added two more stars to the logo.

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Las Vegas Raiders

Talk about a crazy deviation. Originally, the Raiders’ helmet is asilver with the classic pirate logo on it. This AI version takes things to the next level, adding in a jewel-encrusted enhanced version of the logo and a bedazzled helmet and face mask. While it is pretty wild, we can’t say that we totally hate it.

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Los Angeles Rams

The current Los Angeles Rams helmet is a metallic blue with a prominent bright yellow ram horn detail on each side to represent the teams’ old logo. This AI version tones it down a lot by using a darker navy, some white, and gold instead of yellow. We actually like this new version, although it could do with some tweaking.

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Baltimore Ravens

The current Baltimore Ravens helmet is pretty simple. Dark purple helmet with the classic raven logo. When tasked with a redesign, AI went off the rails once again. This helmet incorporates dark purple, black, and coppery brown feather-like lines with a spiked back, which once again we’re guessing wouldn’t be approved by the NFL, but definitely gets points for creativity.

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Pittsburgh Steelers

The Pittsburgh Steelers helmet is simple and iconic: black helmet featuring the classic Steelers logo consisting of a white circle with silver border with the red, yellow, and blue diamonds inside. This AI version added another diamond to the logo for some reason, and changed the white circle to yellow. It also added some details that look like something you’d find under a microscope for a bit of a bizarre detail.

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Detroit Lions

Here we see another take on the Detroit Lions helmet that’s completely bright blue with a giant abstract lion all around. The helmet also features a chrome-gold face mask. It definitely gets points for creativity.

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Chicago Bears

Here’s another take on the Chicago Bears helmet that features a dark navy blue helmet with white and orange accents and an updated version of the orange and blue logo that’s a bit more minimalistic than the current bear logo.

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Cleveland Browns

Talk about going in a totally different direction. While the current Browns helmet is very minimal, this one goes the complete maximalist route, with a giant animated bear taking over most of the helmet, with a bit of brown and orange stripe details and a dark brown face mask.

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Denver Broncos

This is another alternative to the Broncos helmet, which now features a large “D” with a bronco inside of it. This helmet hearkens back to the old logo but makes orange the star color instead of navy blue. We would change the face mask to navy blue just to even things out instead of the orange here, which is too dominant.

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Seattle Seahawks

For some reason, AI loves to take huge risks when it comes to the helmet design for the Seattle Seahawks. This is another crazy one, with a 3D logo and jewel-tones helmet with ocean-line details. It’s all finished off with a gold face mask, and we must say that we think it looks pretty nice.

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Indianapolis Colts

Here’s another take on the helmet for the Indianapolis Colts, which also features a prominent colt logo in a dark cobalt blue, but with gold accents on a white background and a gold face mask.

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Washington Commanders

This is another very bold take, this time for the Washington Commanders. We’re not sure what the AI design choice was going for here, as the logo looks a bit bird-like, which has nothing to do with the team or its logo.

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Jacksonville Jaguars

This Jaguars helmet takes a big risk, as it incorporates the jaguar logo into the entirety of the helmet, and it makes it look like the player’s head is coming out of the jaguar’s jaws, which is definitely interesting.

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New York Jets

If the other AI rendition of the New York Jets helmet featured a convoluted logo, this one went the total other way and kept it very clean. We do like the dark green and the gold is a nice accent to keep things from getting boring.

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