NFL’s new helmet-hit rules might be a headache for officials, players - Daily News
Side judge Mark Perlman said that offensive and defensive players will be assessed 15 yards for hits to any part of an opponent using the helmet, if the transgressor lowers his head to initiate contact, in the officials’ judgment. If the helmet is lowered to brace for contact, that isn’t supposed to be a penalty. We’ll see how it’s called, but discerning the difference might turn out to be more art than science. To reporters, Perlman stressed that he and his cohorts were “only the messengers,” they didn’t make the new rules.
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