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NFL’s new rules for 2025: What you need to know
The NFL expects kickoff returns to increase to 60-70% and reports a 43% drop in concussions on returns, enhancing game excitement and player safety.
- The NFL is starting its 2025 season with several rule updates, including making last year's dynamic kickoff permanent and tweaking it.
- The dynamic kickoff, introduced in 2024 to boost returns and reduce injuries, aligns players closer and restricts movement to lower collision speeds.
- Owners approved moving the touchback starting position from the 30 to the 35-yard line, expecting return rates to rise to 60-70%; other changes include expanding replay assist and using virtual chains.
- Onside kicks are now only allowed when a team is trailing and must be announced; recovery rates dropped to 6.45% last year, with proposals for alternatives voted down and experts doubting its future viability.
- The league also enforces sportsmanship by banning violent and sexually suggestive gestures like the 'nose wipe,' aiming to improve game integrity amid these rule changes.
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NFL’s new rules for 2025: What you need to know
A new NFL season is set to begin with last year’s experiment on the new kickoff becoming permanent with a new tweak and several other changes in rules and officiating. The league also will implement changes to the overtime rule for the regular season, expand replay assist, crack down on bad sportsmanship and use Hawk-Eye virtual measuring to replace the old-time chains to determine first downs. The league experimented with the so-called dynamic …
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NFL's new rules for 2025: What you need to know
A new NFL season is set to begin with last year's experiment on the new kickoff becoming permanent with a new tweak and several other changes in rules and officiating.
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