Kurt Warner weighed in on the Chiefs taking advantage of the league's 'pick rule.'
In the first quarter of Monday's game against the Jaguars, Mahomes found Travis Kelce on two-yard touchdown pass, but a flag was thrown for offensive pass interference immediately following the play. Mahomesthat the Chiefs didn't do anything wrong, and after some deliberation, the refs picked up the flag and ruled it a fair touchdown.
The source of controversy on the play involves the NFL's pick rule, which states that offensive players are allowed to block a defender as much as they want within one yard from the line of scrimmage. In this case, it was Chiefs wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster who blocked a Jags defender to free up Kelce for the score. While fans debated whether Schuster was within the one-yard buffer or not, former NFL quarterback Kurt Warner offered his strong support for Mahomes and believed it was a completely legal play. "You get 1 yard from Line of Scrimmage to contact defender and not have OPI… you can even block the guy if you wanted to, so in this case I think it’s a legal play & TD!" Warner wrote on social media. You get 1 yard from Line of Scrimmage to contact defender and not have OPI… you can even block the guy if you wanted to, so in this case I think it’s a legal play & TD!ESPN analyst Darius Butler also sided with Warner, pointing to an overhead shot that clearly showed Smith-Schuster made contact with his defender within one yard of the line of scrimmage: Juju started off the ball. Definitely a legal pick play. Was tough to see from the first replay. EASY to see from this shot!Kristen Wong is a staff writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. She has been a sports journalist since 2020. Before joining SI in November 2023, Wong covered four NFL teams as an associate editor with the FanSided NFL Network and worked as a staff writer for the brand’s flagship site. Outside of work, she has dreams of running her own sporty dive bar.
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