You might have missed the Buffalo Bills experimenting a bit with kickoffs in their second preseason game, what with Mitch Trubisky beating the snot out of his former team and all. So if you did miss it, Tyler Bass kicked a couple balls toward the corner, not quite into the end zone. It looked like this...
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This particular kick was returned to about the 30-yard line, meaning it wasn’t actually a very successful one. And there’s a risk that the ball could go out of bounds and be a penalty I suppose.