[3] Jasmine Plummer was the first girl to participate in a Pop Warner football team as quarterback.

[4] At the age of 11 years old, she became the first female quarterback and the first black female athlete to play in the Pop Warner Super Bowl youth football tournament,[5] specifically the 56th Annual Pop Warner Super Bowl (Junior Pee Wee division); however, her team, the Harvey Colts, lost in the semifinals.

[7] In 2015, a family sued Pop Warner over the suicide of a former player who was later found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), claiming that the organization knew or should have known about the risk of head injuries.

[3] In 2016, the Pop Warner league banned kickoffs in an attempt to reduce high-speed collisions that result in concussions.

[14][15] Michael Lewis, a preventive medicine specialist on the Pop Warner Youth Football Medical Advisory Board, says that even people who do not believe that football causes CTE should support reducing the number of times children and adolescents have their heads hit, because "there’s no downside to decreasing" the risk to the brain.