A crew of NFL officials is in town working for the Seattle Seahawks for a few days this week as both the players - and officials - work to understand what the new kickoff rules will look like this year.
The NFL will have one of the biggest rule changes in recent memory with the introduction of a new kickoff format for teams this season.In fact, it's such a big shift that veteran NFL referee Carl Cheffers can't recall another rule change as monumental in his 25 years working for the league as an official."We certainly have had some fairly significant rule changes, but this is a very fundamental rule change," Cheffers said in a briefing with reporters on Thursday.
"I think it kind of died off with the lack of returns and lack of incentive for returns, so now there's an incentive to return the ball. With it being live in the end zone instead of dead if it rolls into the end zone, they've got to cover it, maybe run with it. There's a lot of incentive for them to return it and I think it's really going to put a breath of life back into the kickoffs so we're looking forward to having an exciting play.
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