Sometimes when a particular player brings an obscure rule to light, or changes the rule itself, he winds up with his name attached to it. It’s been happening since the Bronko Nagurski Rule was enacted after the 1932 NFL Championship Game, when the league declared that forward passes could be made from anywhere behind the line of scrimmage, and has continued through the years all the way up to the Hines Ward Rule that prohibits blindside blocks and the Calvin Johnson Rule that says a player must control the football throughout the entirety of a catch.
We may be close to having a John Jerry Rule.