The NFL and NFL Players Association have agreed to a new system aimed at enhancing player safety. It calls for a suspension if a player violates a given rule three times in the same year.
The five applicable rules are hip-drop tackles, horse-collar tackles, launching, hits on defenseless players and blindside blocks.
The suspension applies only if a player commits three violations of the same rule. For example, three hip-drop tackles will trigger a suspension. Two hip-drop tackles and one horse-collar tackle won’t.
So how would this new procedure have applied in recent years? Per a source with knowledge of the situation, the NFLPA informed…
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