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NFL owners to vote on wild rule change that would allow a fourth-and-15 onside kick alternative - CBS Sports

NFL owners to vote on wild rule change that would allow a fourth-and-15 onside kick alternative - CBS Sports

NFL owners to vote on wild rule change that would allow a fourth-and-15 onside kick alternative - CBS Sports
May 21, 2020 1 min, 25 secs

A dramatic rule change pertaining to onside kicks could be coming to the NFL in 2020 if the league's owners vote to make it happen.

The Eagles have proposed a rule that would give teams an alternative option to the onside kick.

Instead of trying to recover an onside kick, teams would have the option of attempting to convert a fourth-and-15 play from their own 25-yard line.

A big reason the competition committee liked the idea is because the success rate for onside kicks has fallen dramatically under the NFL's new kickoff rules, which were implemented in 2018.

Under the new rules, players aren't allowed to get a running start, which makes it almost impossible to recover an onside kick.

In 2019, the onside rate went up to 12.5 percent (7 out of 56), but that was largely thanks to Falcons kicker Younghoe Koo, who converted two in one game. .

Not only would the fourth-and-15 play add some serious excitement, but based on numbers over the past few years, teams would also have a better chance of converting the alternative onside kick than they would the traditional onside kick. .

Under Philly's plan, the fourth-and-15 play would happen from a team's own 25-yard line, which makes it more high-risk than the Broncos plan, which called for the play to happen at the 35-yard line. 

Also, under the Broncos plan, a team could only use the alternative onside kick once per game, and it could only happen in the fourth quarter

In the AAF,  instead of an onside kick, teams were allowed to try and convert a fourth-and-12 play from their own 28 after scoring

Behold, the first successful onside conversion attempt

Regular onside kicks could also still be attempted at any point in the game as well

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