Overview
- The withdrawal means the ideas will not be presented at the NFL’s annual meeting in Phoenix from March 29 to April 1.
- One shelved proposal sought to treat backward passes beyond the line of scrimmage as fumbles in narrowly defined situations such as fourth down, inside two minutes, or on conversion tries.
- The other would have imposed a 40-second limit to initiate replay review after a play, citing that roughly 100 seconds elapsed before review began on the disputed sequence.
- The proposals stemmed from a Week 16 play in which a tipped backward pass was ruled a live ball and recovered for two points, tying the game late against the Rams.
- Yahoo Sports reported the league became aware the play was reviewable after Prime Video rules analyst Terry McAulay contacted NFL rules official Walt Anderson.