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The NFL is taking a page out of the United Football League's (UFL) book this year.. Ahead of the 2024 season, the NFL decided to completely overhaul its rules for kickoffs and change to a format ...
The NFL is seeking to sack such tedium. Back in March, the league passed new kickoff rules for this upcoming season, which begins on September 5. They’re somewhat convoluted, but here’s our ...
The new kickoff rule reduces the high-speed collisions between players who are running at full speed from their own 35-yard line. The NFL has said concussions on kickoffs were happening at about ...
Kickoff returns are returning to the NFL. Team owners on Tuesday approved a new rule that will take what essentially had become “a dead play” and make it an integral part of the game again.
Harrison Butker and the Kansas City Chiefs will be among the first two teams to demonstrate the new NFL kickoff rule in a regular-season game when they face Baltimore on Sept. 5 in the season opener.
For context, consider that in 2010, before rules were instituted in the name of safety, 80% of kickoffs were returned. And boy did the essential removal of the kick-return leave a glaring mark on ...
ORLANDO, Fla. — The NFL kickoff is getting a makeover. As the league sought to preserve a key phase of the game while decreasing the injury risk that high-speed collisions with distance-boosted ...
The NFL’s new kickoff rule did what it was implemented to do in the preseason. Nearly 300 kickoffs were returned in the preseason, a 70.5% return rate that was the highest since 2014.