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Get Ready For Longer PATs After Touchdowns

Evidently, the league really is dead set on making life more difficult for kickers. Following a groundswell of support over the course of the offseason for a long-proposed change to the standard procedure for extra points, it seems that the competition committee now has three solid proposals on the table that they will consider next week—all three of which move the line of scrimmage for the point after attempt back to the 15-yard line.

The New England Patriots’ proposal is the most straightforward, simply keeping everything as it has been other than the new line of scrimmage for the point after attempt, with two-point conversion attempts still being taken from the two-yard line.