Every year, individual NFL teams and the league’s Competition Committee propose rule changes. Owners then vote on whether to adopt these proposals. Three-quarters of the owners — 24 of 32 — must support a rule change in order for it to be adopted.
The league went through this annual process on Wednesday, approving a handful of rule changes — most of them fairly minor.
But sometimes the most significant changes in how the game is played aren’t brought before the owners for a vote. According to a report from NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero, we might be looking at such a situation in 2021.