The league will consider changes to the onside kick this offseason, NFL executive Troy Vincent said Wednesday.

The NFL overhauled the kickoff on a one-year basis for 2024, but the onside kick remained mostly the same aside from the elimination of the surprise onside kick. This season, onside kicks are permitted only in the fourth quarter and only if the kicking team is losing.

“We need to look at that. That’s a dead play,” Vincent said of the onside kick’s low success rate. “That is a ceremonial play. Very low recovery rate. When we look at the kickoff and maybe where the touchback area should be during the offseason, we need to revisit the onside kick.”

Teams have recovered only 3-of-41 onside kicks this season, with the Cowboys, Bucs and Bears each having one recovery of an onside kick.

The Competition Committee will discuss alternatives.

This offseason the Eagles proposed allowing teams to line up their offense on the field on fourth-and-20, instead of kicking off, for an onside try.

Owners rejected allowing a team that scored a touchdown or field goal from taking the ball at its own 20-yard line and facing a fourth-and-20. If the scoring team converted the fourth-and-20, it would keep the ball and go from there.

“It’s something that started back with, if I’m not mistaken, John Elway was the first proposal about six years ago. The fourth-and-17 or fourth-and-23, one of those, and then over the previous three or four years, Philadelphia [has proposed it],” Vincent said. “It has garnered [support from] where it started and the votes that it received, and where it ended a year ago, there has been progress.

“Those are all the things that we should be exploring. If we’re going to have a ceremonial play on the way it is today, we’ve got to be creative [in trying to change it]. Our coaches, they can be creative enough to come up with a good, solid, competitive play to bring some excitement back in those situations.”