INDIANAPOLIS — The NFL’s competition committee, acting on instructions by commissioner Roger Goodell to rewrite the sport’s cumbersome and often-confounding catch rule, is considering scrapping the going-to-the-ground portion of the rule that led to the controversial non-catches over the years by Calvin Johnson, Dez Bryant and Steelers tight end Jesse James.
“That’s probably where it’ll end up,” one person familiar with the committee’s deliberations said Tuesday.
Committee members are meeting this week at the NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis. Any rule-change proposals would be made to the owners late next month at the annual NFL meeting in Orlando, Florida.