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Offline TXMike

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Receivers, Out of Bounds, and Touching
« on: December 09, 2012, 03:01:06 PM »
In NCAA, if a receiver is forced OOB, as long as he immediately tries to come back in bounds , he can be the first to touch the legal fwd pass.  Is NFL rule the same?

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Re: Receivers, Out of Bounds, and Touching
« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2012, 04:44:11 PM »
Only if the receiver is forced out by foul can he be the first to touch a forward pass. Looks like its 8-1-8 in the NFL rulebook.

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Re: Receivers, Out of Bounds, and Touching
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2012, 08:02:11 PM »
In NCAA, if a receiver is forced OOB, as long as he immediately tries to come back in bounds , he can be the first to touch the legal fwd pass.  Is NFL rule the same?

No...if legally forced OOB, the player is ineligible. If illegally forced OOB, as soon as he returns inbounds, he may be the first to touch.

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Re: Receivers, Out of Bounds, and Touching
« Reply #3 on: December 11, 2012, 06:03:19 AM »
This creates a hole in the rules that Cincinnati and Tampa Bay have been victims of this year; the QB leaves the pocket, and then one of Team A's recievers is blocked out of bounds (in a block that would ordinarily draw a flag for illegal contact), he returns immediately, and subsequently catches an apparent TD pass.  Trouble is, since the QB left the pocket prior to the contact, that block isn't an illegal contact foul, so the reciever who was blocked out of bounds can't get his eligiblity back unless someone else touches the pass before it gets to him.

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Re: Receivers, Out of Bounds, and Touching
« Reply #4 on: December 11, 2012, 06:09:22 AM »
This creates a hole in the rules that Cincinnati and Tampa Bay have been victims of this year; the QB leaves the pocket, and then one of Team A's recievers is blocked out of bounds (in a block that would ordinarily draw a flag for illegal contact), he returns immediately, and subsequently catches an apparent TD pass.  Trouble is, since the QB left the pocket prior to the contact, that block isn't an illegal contact foul, so the reciever who was blocked out of bounds can't get his eligiblity back unless someone else touches the pass before it gets to him.

Don't run routes where you might get blocked out of bounds when your OL can't keep the pocket up? :)