re: OT for people with no skin in the game. Was the hit against Jaxson Smith Njiba legit

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I’d say the player was defenseless by rule.

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By what rule? The only category of defenseless you could possibly argue is:

“A ball carrier already in the grasp of an opponent and whose forward progress has been stopped.”

But I don’t think there’s any way you could say forward progress had stopped at the time of the hit. In fact it looks to me like that was a broken tackle and he would have continued running down field without the additional hit.