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The NFL is taking a page out of the United Football League’s (UFL) book this year.
Ahead of the 2024 season, the NFL decided to completely overhaul its rules for kickoffs and change to a format more like that of the spring football league’s. This season (and likely beyond), the one special teams play guaranteed to happen at least twice per game is going to look very different from how it used to.
Fans who have watched any preseason NFL action likely have already noticed how different kickoffs look: The kicker stands alone at his own 35-yard line. The rest of the coverage team, and most of the return team, line up five yards apart from each other. There’s something called a “landing zone.”
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According to the NFL, these new rules were partly “to address the lowest kickoff return rate in NFL history during the 2023 season” and partly to cut down on the injuries that were rampant on kickoff returns prior to last season.
Here’s what the new kickoff rules look like and what they mean:
Many aspects of the kickoff are changing in the new rules imposed for the 2024 season, but there are still some things that will remain the same from previous years. These are how the rules are laid out according to NFL’s Football Operations:
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Vocabulary to know:
Pre-kick
Kick outcomes:
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Onside kicks
Other things:
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