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“I don’t understand how offensive linemen can be downfield. It used to be when [an offensive lineman] tripped and fell down, it was illegal man downfield. Now if it’s just an uncovered lineman and you go 2.3 yards downfield, it’s not a penalty. But if you go three yards it is and nobody can see it until after the ball is thrown,” Fitzgerald said.
In college football, no ineligible receivers “shall be more than three yards beyond the neutral zone until a passer throws a legal forward pass that crosses the neutral zone,” per NCAA rules. “A player is in violation of this rule if any part of his body is beyond the three-yard limit.”
“I don’t understand how offensive linemen can be downfield. It used to be when [an offensive lineman] tripped and fell down, it was illegal man downfield. Now if it’s just an uncovered lineman and you go 2.3 yards downfield, it’s not a penalty. But if you go three yards it is and nobody can see it until after the ball is thrown,” Fitzgerald said.
In college football, no ineligible receivers “shall be more than three yards beyond the neutral zone until a passer throws a legal forward pass that crosses the neutral zone,” per NCAA rules. “A player is in violation of this rule if any part of his body is beyond the three-yard limit.”