For years, NFL writers and fans have suggested that the league should and could eventually replace onside kicks with ...
Although the NFL did not vote on the much-discussed “fourth-and-15 alternative” to the onside kick, it did pass a new rule that will make onside kicks easier for the kicking team to recover. The rule ...
The NFL's Competition Committee did not discuss the alternative to the onside kick during their meeting on Sunday at the ...
The new kickoff formation has made it even harder to recover onside kicks. Which makes it even harder for a team trailing by multiple scores to close the gap. Which is going to renew discussions about ...
One of the more negative side effects to the NFL's new kickoff rule has been what it's done to the onside kick, an already rare but exciting play that had the potential to help teams close the gap in ...
With the NFL’s onside kick setup failing to provide enough drama, executive vice president Troy Vincent suggested last October that changes could be in store in 2026. Replacing the onside kick with a ...
The NFL is adopting some rule changes. A modification to the onside kick won’t be one of them. The league announced three of its lesser-publicized rule-change proposals have been approved, but owners ...
GREEN BAY — Ever since Brandon Bostick tried to field an onside kick he wasn’t supposed to in the 2014 NFC Championship Game, Rich Bisaccia has used that unfortunate mistake — if you’re a Green Bay ...
It wasn’t pretty. It wasn’t clean. And for most of the night, it didn’t even feel possible. A 10 point fourth quarter deficit vanished. An onside kick flipped the night. And overtime delivered the ...
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 ...