The 2023 NFL season is set to kick off -- literally. And when the opening kickoffs happen, things will look a little bit different than fans are used to. There were several rule changes approved this offseason, including theemergency third quarterback rule,Thursday Night Footballflex...
Kickoff returns are up to 32 percent this season, a solid jump from the 20 percent return rate in 2023. That's the kind of increase the league was hoping for when it pushed the new rules into play. What's even more encouraging is the drop in injuries. NFL executive vice president Jeff...
Perhaps the rest of Week 1 will put the "dynamic" into the NFL's new kickoff rules. In the 2024 season opener between the defending champion Kansas City Chiefs and Baltimore Ravens, the league debuted its newDynamic Kickoff rule, aimed at breathing life into the play while also making it ...
But the seasoned NFL special teams coach was in the trenches for all the planning, the trial and error, and the meetings and negotiating surrounding the kickoff play over the past seven years. As he recalls it, it was February 2017 when the league invited a group of such assistants, one ...
Per Seifert, 32.8% of all kickoffs were returned, while 64.3% were touchbacks. It marks the second-lowest return rate since 2000, behind only the 2023 season. So the NFL did somewhat succeed. There were more kickoffs returned in 2024 than in 2023, which saw a dismal 21.8% kickoff retur...
TheUSFL set a dateMonday for the kickoff of its second season. The league announced that April 15 will begin year two of the upstart spring football league, which became the first in nearly four decades to run a successful inaugural season and return for a second. The league also annou...
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Here’s my live reaction to the NFL Dynamic Kickoff courtesy ofpic.twitter.com/xdkMPTwZHk — Sam Schwartzstein (@schwartzsteins) “So far, I feel like it kind of protects guys a little bit more,” Tyler toldESPN. “Guys aren't getting a full head of steam coming down the field, tak...
NFL's new kickoff rule incentivizes offensive playAugust 5, 2024 11:22 AMFormer NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez joins Dan Patrick to discuss the latest changes in the NFL's kickoff rules and why the modification is a necessary addition to the league....
The NFL predicts that more than half of all kickoffs will be returned under the new rules. What is the goal of the new NFL kickoff rule? The primary objective of the one-year trial of this new system is to reinvigorate the kickoff, making it a more dynamic and exciting part of the ...