Here we go again.
The 2023 PP has 3 slides concerning the new Defenseless Receiver rule, which show examples of what is not a foul. However, the captions all state “This is not a defenseless receiver...”
The receivers shown are definitely defenseless.
Well, they have an error on another of their slides as well. The one where A steps on the endline, jumps into the air from out of bounds, and bats the pass back to another A player in the ez. The caption says incomplete pass and an illegal participation foul. Yet, if A inadvertently stepped out of bounds, jumped from oob and touched the pass, he has not returned inbounds yet. So no foul, just an incomplete pass. If he purposefully goes oob, then I could buy a foul in this situation. But not if it's inadvertent. (The whole illegal participation for a receiver that accidentally steps oob is one of the worst Fed rules anyway, but that's a separate issue/argument.)
So I guess when we look at anything that comes from the Fed editors nowadays, it may be best to just try to grasp their main point. The editors don't seem to be good about details lately. That's frustrating to many people, I know.