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The NFL has banned the "swivel" technique of the hip-drop tackle, similar to this one that injured Ravens tight end Mark Andrews last season. (Photo by Mark Goldman/Icon Sportswire via Getty ...
On Monday and Tuesday, the NFL announced a number of major rule changes aimed at increasing player safety, enhancing replay and creating more excitement in one phase of the game. The beginning of ...
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 ...
NFL Competition Committee chairman Rich McKay said the new rule passed by a 29-3 to vote. “There was a little fear of the unknown,” McKay said. “I think the optics are definitely the most ...
The 2024 NFL league year and trading period started on March 13. On March 11, teams were allowed to exercise options for 2024 on players with option clauses in their contracts, submit qualifying offers to their pending restricted free agents, and submit a Minimum Salary Tender to retain exclusive negotiating rights to their players with expiring 2023 contracts and fewer than three accrued ...
The other big rule change was the ban on a dangerous type of tackle called the “swivel hip drop.” NFL executive Jeff Miller said the tackle was used 230 times last season and resulted in 15 ...
Free substitution — apparently intended to help lesser players by allowing longer rest breaks — was implemented in a rule change made April 7, 1943, "for the duration" of the war effort. [7] This was paired with a one-year rule change made in August reducing the size of wartime NFL rosters from 33 players to 28, in an effort to reduce the ...
NFL rules now further prohibit attempts to improve field conditions—during a 2022 game, the Chicago Bears were assessed a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty when, prior to a field goal attempt during heavy rainfall at Soldier Field, holder Trenton Gill attempted to use a towel on the field to create a dry patch for kicker Cairo Santos ...