If NFL team owners vote at next week's Annual League Meeting to ratify the new catch rule that will be placed before them, they will conclude an extensive process that NFL Executive Vice President of Football Operations Troy Vincent began two years ago.
At that time, Vincent and his staff gathered a group of active and former players to explain, review and debate the current catch rule, which has not had much success at providing a clear demarcation between what is and is not a catch. They watched examples of plays called each way and gathered an understanding of what the rule was, and then they moved on to potentially crafting what it could be.