re: Rules committee to review ineligible receiver downfield rule next week

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Currently, linemen are allowed to be 3 yards past the line of scrimmage.



and what are they considering?

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probably taking it back to 1 yard instead of 3 yards to make it easy to spot when someone is in violation. in practice it probably means players get away with 3 yards instead of 6 yards like currently happens. 1 yard is what the nfl uses