Two prominent Seahawks may not like it, but the NFL on Tuesday approved a new rule banning players from leaping over the line of scrimmage to try to block field goals and point after touchdown attempts.
The approval came at the NFL owners’ meetings in Phoenix.
While Seattle wasn’t the only team to have players leap over the line in an attempt to make a block, the Seahawks certainly had two of the more notabble instances of it in recent seasons — middle linebacker Bobby Wagner blocking a field goal by Arizona in an eventual 6-6 overtime tie last season, and Kam Chancellor making three leaping attempts to try to block a field goal against Carolina in the divisional playoffs following the 2014 seasons.