He NFL Competition Committee It is recommending that the dynamic start rule be permanent and moving touchbacks to the 35 -yard line hoping to generate even more returns.
The Competition Committee published several potential changes in the rules by 2025 on Wednesday, including an expansion of instant repetition that will be considered next week at the League meetings in Palm Beach, Florida. Any rule change must be approved by 24 of 32 team owners.
Equipment presented Several proposals last week That could also be voted at the League meetings, including the prohibition of the “push of tum” and the changing planting rules of playoffs.
The owners approved an important change at the beginning of last year as a year and the Committee recommended another change to increase the rate of yields without increasing the risk of injury. The League had 332 additional returns last season with the rate that increased from a record of 21.8% in 2023 to 32.8% last season.
The Committee hopes to move the touchback in the kicks that reach the score area of the 30 to 35 will incentivize the kicks to opt for shorter kicks that lead to more returns.
The committee also proposed to allow the teams to declare their intention of a side kick at any time of the game when they are following instead of only in the fourth quarter.
The Committee proposed some other adjustments on how players in the return team can align before the kick, but the basic concepts will remain the same with the kicker who aligned in their own 35, the 10 coverage players in the 40 and at least nine blockers were aligned in the “configuration zone” between the 30 and 35 yard line and up to two returns in the landing zone between 20.
You can return any kick that reaches the air score area, or the receiving equipment can opt for a touchback, which will now be in 35.
Only the kicker is allowed and two returns move until the ball hit the ground or touched by a returner within 20.
According to the NFL, there were 59 returns of at least 40 yards last season, the most in the league since 2016 and seven TD return. The brain shock rate fell 43% of the previous three years and there were the least amount of extreme extreme low strains in the kicking plates since 2018.
The Committee also proposed an expansion of instant repetition to allow repetition assistance to consult the officials in the field to cancel objective calls such as FaceMask sanctions, whether there was a forced contact in the head or neck area, horsepower cenching or stumbling blocks if there was “clear and obvious” evidence that a foul did not occur. The repetition could also cancel a cursed to the kicking or run towards the kicker’s penalty if the video repetition showed that the defender made contact with the ball.
The committee also proposed to allow two players to be designated to return from the injured reserve if they are placed in going when the lists are reduced to 53, granting to the playoffs two more returns of the points to go in the postseason, and using the differential of points such as the third tiebreaker in the exemption claims.
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