The Cleveland Browns and the rest of the NFL will have to adapt to a new set of rules for the 2024 season.
On Tuesday, the NFL announced several rule changes that would take effect this upcoming season and could have a significant impact on how the game is played. The most controversial of the changes is banning the hip drop tackle, which would result in a 15-yard penalty and an automatic first down for any violation. The biggest issue from this rule change will be giving officials another judgment call to make when they haven’t exactly been doing a good job of that lately.
One of the best changes for the Browns is the new kickoff rule, which will result in more kick returns and fewer touchbacks. Andrew Berry, of course, signed running back Nyheim Hines earlier this month, one of the better kick returners in the league. Back in the day with Josh Cribbs, kick returns were some of the most exciting plays on Sundays. It will be nice to have more of those chances in 2024.
Here are all of the rule changes that have been passed for the upcoming 2024 regular season.
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We will see more kickoff returns this season, and they will be modeled after the way the XFL does its kickoffs.
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The official wording of what a hip drop tackle is as follows:
“It is a foul if the players uses the following technique to bring a runner to the ground:
(a) grabs the runner with both hands or wraps the runner with both arms; and
(b) unweights himself by swiveling and dropping his hips and/or lower body, landing on and trapping the runner’s leg(s) at or below the knee.”
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The trade deadline will now be the Tuesday after Week nine games. The Browns wanted it to be after Week 10, but that wasn’t approved.
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Initially, teams would have to get both their first and second challenges right to get a third one, but now they only need to get one challenge correctly to earn a third.
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During a play that results in a possession change, if both teams commit fouls, any major offensive fouls (like unnecessary roughness) that were committed before the possession change will now be enforced.
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