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Neuroimaging assessments were conducted May to July of the 2021 and 2022 seasons. Data were analyzed from February to November 2023.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Exposure<\/jats:title>Playing tackle football or noncontact sports.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Main Outcomes and Measures<\/jats:title>Structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data were analyzed for cortical thickness, sulcal depth, and gyrification, and cortical surface-based resting state (RS)\u2013functional MRI analyses examined the amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (ALFF), regional homogeneity (ReHo), and RS-functional connectivity (RS-FC).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Results<\/jats:title>Two-hundred seventy-five male participants (205 football players; mean [SD] age, 15.8 [1.2] years; 5 Asian [2.4%], 8 Black or African American [3.9%], and 189 White [92.2%]; 70 control participants; mean [SD] age 15.8 [1.2] years, 4 Asian [5.7], 1 Black or African American [1.4%], and 64 White [91.5%]) were included in this study. Relative to the control group, the football group showed significant cortical thinning, especially in fronto-occipital regions (eg, right precentral gyrus: t<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009\u22122.24; P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009.01; left superior frontal gyrus: \u22122.42; P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009.002). Elevated cortical thickness in football players was observed in the anterior and posterior cingulate cortex (eg, left posterior cingulate cortex: t<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20092.28; P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009.01; right caudal anterior cingulate cortex 3.01; P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009.001). The football group had greater and deeper sulcal depth than the control groups in the cingulate cortex, precuneus, and precentral gyrus (eg, right inferior parietal lobule: t<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20092.20; P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009.004; right caudal anterior cingulate cortex: 4.30; P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&amp;lt;\u2009.001). Significantly lower ALFF was detected in the frontal lobe and cingulate cortex of the football group (t<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009\u22123.66 to \u22124.92; P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&amp;lt;\u2009.01), whereas elevated ALFF was observed in the occipital regions (calcarine and lingual gyrus, t<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20093.20; P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&amp;lt;\u2009.01). Similar to ALFF, football players exhibited lower ReHo in the precentral gyrus and medial aspects of the brain, such as precuneus, insula, and cingulum, whereas elevated ReHo was clustered in the occipitotemporal regions (t<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20093.17; P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&amp;lt;\u2009.001; to 4.32; P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&amp;lt;\u2009.01). There was no group difference in RS-FC measures.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Conclusions and Relevance<\/jats:title>In this study of adolescent athletes, there was evidence of discernible structural and physiological differences in the brains of adolescent football players compared with their noncontact controls. 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