Good news for NFL fans, coaches and non-defensive players: The league is finally considering scrapping its most ridiculous rule.
Per NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, NFL executive vice president of football operations Troy Vincent announced at Wednesday’s league meeting that this upcoming offseason, they’ll finally consider altering the rule about an offensive player fumbling the football through the end zone.
Under the current rule, a player who fumbles the ball through the end zone loses possession, and its ruled a touchback for the opposing team.
If there’s one rule that just about everybody would like to see get scrapped, it’s this one. There have been, surprisingly, far too many instances of a player on offense costing his team six points all because he’s trying to reach for the end zone.
One notable instance of this rule came in Week 15 of the 2017 season, when Oakland Raiders quarterback Derek Carr fumbled through the end zone in the waning seconds of the club’s home game against the Dallas Cowboys.
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Incredibly, Carr did it again in Week 7 of the 2019 season in a road game against the Green Bay Packers.
Minnesota Vikings star wide receiver Justin Jefferson also became a victim of the awful rule in the club’s Week 2 road game against the Philadelphia Eagles earlier this year:
After so many years of complaints and backlash, this rule may finally be scrapped in 2024. Fingers crossed, folks.
