Danny Medeo is one of the lucky ones. Since his Pop Warner days as a fourth-grader, the Byram Hills senior quarterback has suffered four concussions. Each one was considered mild, though, enabling him to get up and play another day. \"You just feel like you got blasted,\" said Medeo, describing the disorienting feeling that follows. \"You get up, look around, try to gather yourself and then everything comes back to normal.\" It\'s a scary feeling, but it\'s certainly not uncommon. Studies over the last five years by the Brain Injury Association of America indicate that, of the 1.5 million students who will play high school football this season, 250,000 will incur a brain injury or concussion. With players getting bigger, stronger and faster, those numbers can only go up unless more protective equipment is designed. That\'s where Ben Roberts, a schoolmate of Medeo, hopes to make a difference. Roberts, a black belt in Taekwondo, has taken it upon himself to help make contact sports - particularly football - safer with the use of a special mouth guard called Brain-Pad. According to independent studies by Wayne State University , Brain-Pad can reduce the impact of a blow to the jaw by 40 percent.