Anyone gotten a printed rule book yet? I’m teaching rule 7 next weekend but won’t get the book before then, could someone post the rule change text verbatim from rule 7?
This may help, SCline, if your rulebooks have yet to arrive. Turn to page 61 of 2021 book and add under 7-5-2 EXCEPTION :
2. It is legal for a player to conserve yardage by intentionally throwing an incomplete forward pass if :
a. The player is or has been beyond the lateral boundary of the free-blocking zone as established at the snap when the pass is released; and
b. The forward pass reaches the neutral zone or beyond, including the area outside the field of play.
NOTE 1: There is no requirement for an eligible offensive receiver to be in the area for this exception.
NOTE 2: Should the passer meet both criteria in (a) and (b) , it is an incomplete pass.
This was the rule that we passed. Hope this helps.