If you dislike the NFL’s infamous “fumble-touchback” rule, you’re stuck for at least another season.
The “Justin Jefferson Rule” Won’t Be Changed
One of the sport’s most archaic rules reportedly won’t change as NFL owners showed no enthusiasm for a tweak this week.
Currently, when a ball carrier fumbles the ball out of the opposing team’s endzone — so that man is about to score a touchdown — the defense gets the ball, and the offense is totally out of luck. And evidently, the powers that be in the NFL don’t have a problem with that.