The NFL competition committee is recommending making the dynamic kickoff rule permanent and moving touchbacks to the 35-yard ...

The NFL expects the percentage of kickoffs returned to approximately double in 2025 compared to 2024, if the proposal to move ...

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The football would be spotted at the 35-yard line instead of at the 30 on a touchback on a kickoff, a modification designed ...

The NFL is reportedly eyeing yet another change to its kickoff rules for next season. Per Mark Maske of The Washington Post, ...

The NFL's football operations group and the competition committee continue to discuss modifications to the kickoff, which ...

Regardless, shifting the spot of the touchback appears to be the ... as executive vice president of football operations Troy Vincent predicted last month. The concussion rate dropped by 43% ...

The NFL has continued to explore ways to potentially improve the kickoff play, and another significant change could be implemented for the 2025 season.

New kickoff rules in 2024 increased the rate of returns from about 22% in 2023 to about 33% last season, and there are tweaks set to boost that rate.

The committee hopes that moving the touchback on kicks that reach the ... City Chiefs during the first half of the NFL Super Bowl 59 football game, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025, in New Orleans.

Kickoffs used to be one of the most exciting plays in football before they were mostly ... the league anticipates that moving the touchback up to the 35 will result in an estimated 65-75% return ...

And that's what the NFL wants, for kickoffs to more resemble a normal football play where there's action on the field. The league changed the kickoff rules in large part in response to increased ...