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NFL owners unanimously approve new catch rule

NFL owners unanimously approved the new catch rule, the biggest of three playing rule changes for 2018, at the league meetings in Orlando on Tuesday.

Dez Bryant's non-catch in the 2014 divisional-round loss to the Green Bay Packers would now qualify as a touchdown, as would controversial overturned scoring catches by Pittsburgh Steelers and Chicago Bears tight ends, Jesse James and Zach Miller, respectively.

Here's the technical jargon regarding the catch-rule changes. Basically, two feet or a body part being down now constitutes a catch, as does a common football move occuring before the ball leaves the pass catcher's hands.