Martha Careful
4 months ago
ESPN wrote

NFL considering changes to regular-season overtime rules

Feb 26, 2025, 05:46 PM ET

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/44029502/nfl-considering-changes-regular-season-rules 

INDIANAPOLIS -- The NFL is considering changing overtime rules in the regular season to decrease the advantage for teams that win the coin toss.

"It's time to rethink the overtime rule," league executive Troy Vincent said Wednesday at the NFL scouting combine.

Vincent said the competition committee agrees overtime rules need to be addressed. Receiving the ball first has become more of an advantage than pre-2011 when overtime was a sudden-death period. Receiving teams won 56.8% of games in overtime from 2017 to 2024, up from 55.4% from 2001 to 2011.

Current rules give both teams an opportunity to possess the ball in overtime unless a touchdown is scored on the first possession.

The rules are different in the playoffs. Both teams get a chance to have a possession even if the offense scores a touchdown on the opening drive. That postseason change came after the Buffalo Bills lost to the Kansas City Chiefs in a divisional round game in January 2022.

Making the overtime rules the same in the regular season is a possible solution, along with extending the period to 15 minutes.

Among other changes, the NFL plans to use its virtual measuring system to determine first downs in 2025. This wouldn't eliminate the officials who manually spot the ball and use chains to mark the line to gain. The optimal tracking system notifies officiating instantly if a first down was gained after the ball is spotted by hand.

"We used this in the background last season," said Kimberly Fields, the NFL's senior vice president of football operations. "The goal for 2025 is to continue to train our techs, who are the ones who will be utilizing the technology, finalizing all of our officiating processes and procedures around virtual measurements and testing the graphics for the broadcast and in-stadium, so fans in the stadium and fans watching on television can see what we're doing. The chain crew will still be there as backup."

The competition committee also will review expansion of the replay assist to include more fouls, but Vincent said "there was no appetite" from the committee to use video replay to throw a flag.

A team could still propose a rule change to do that. For now, if officials miss an obvious penalty such as a face mask, replay assist can't throw a flag.

Replay assist was used in 2024 to pick up flags thrown for roughing the passer (contact with head/neck), unnecessary roughness (runner out of bounds), intentional grounding and ineligible player downfield.

Expansion under consideration for 2025 would include roughing the passer (hit below the knee), unnecessary roughness (defenseless receiver/player), face mask (contact of hand with face mask), tripping, illegal crackback block and horse-collar tackle, among others.

Vincent said the league wanted to find a way to bring back onside kicks while also installing a permanent kickoff rule after a one-year trial with what was called the dynamic kickoff.

The trial made kickoffs more exciting with higher rate of returns. Vincent said he anticipated the spot of the touchback on kickoffs being moved from the 30- to the 35-yard line.

But the changes affected the onside kick. Teams were 3 for 50, the lowest recovery rate since 2001.

"Universal consensus that we know we need to do something with this play," Vincent said.

He added there wasn't much conversation around a fourth-and-long option to keep possession, though those discussions could occur next month.

The tush push play mastered by the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles has been a hot topic this week because the Green Bay Packers proposed banning it. Some opponents have argued the play is dangerous, but Vincent said the league found no injuries on the play in 2024.


It is amazing to me the bullheadedness the NFL has regarding this issue. The college overtime system is very fair, exciting, and shortens the game. The egos, starting with Goddell, are simply to big to admit that college does it better.
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4 months ago

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It is amazing to me the bullheadedness the NFL has regarding this issue. The college overtime system is very fair, exciting, and shortens the game. The egos, starting with Goddell, are simply to big to admit that college does it better.

Originally Posted by: Martha Careful 



I have been an advocate of the colligate OT rules for a long time.

A few years ago Illinois played Penn State. the game went 9 OTs. My first reaction was WOW! Crumby Illinois beat 7th ranked PSU? Next 9 OTs!!!! I was thinking they were all 10 minute periods.

After the first couple of OTs where the teams start at the opponent 25 and ended up kicking FGs, they line up at the 2. They are attempting a 2 point conversation.
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Zero2Cool
4 months ago
I would still like to see them play a 10 minute quarter, whomever has most points, wins. If still tied, they have FG-off.

Start them off on 30 yarders. Go back 5 yards until one misses and thus you have the winner.
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dfosterf
4 months ago

I would still like to see them play a 10 minute quarter, whomever has most points, wins. If still tied, they have FG-off.

Start them off on 30 yarders. Go back 5 yards until one misses and thus you have the winner.

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool 



Don't like the whole field goal thing as proposed. Maybe owners with pistols at 30 yards single shot getting closer by 5 until one of the owners is dead. I'd watch that. Have not worked out all the details, stray rounds, getting 24 owners to approve it, possibly allowing owners to designate a family member or coach to stand in, stuff like that. I do like the name i have come up with...
Sudden Death overtime
Alas, the competition commitee will probably water it down to paintballs, but it's an idea. 🤪
Zero2Cool
4 months ago

Don't like the whole field goal thing as proposed.

Originally Posted by: dfosterf 


This kind of tells me I'm definitely on to something!!!


or ... just ON something period hahah

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Martha Careful
4 months ago
I would think the NFLPA would prefer the college system over a period or the current system as it would keep the number of plays lower, reducing injury possibility.
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