NFL competition committee puts out recommendations for simplified catch rules

Finally, the NFL is making an attempt to simplify and thereby clarify what is a catch. Today the NFL competition committee announced how they will be recommending the catch rule should look.

NFL Senior VP of officiating Al Riverson put out the recommendations. They are as follows:

Control

Two feet down or another body part

A football move such as:

Reaching/extending for the line to gain

Or the ability to perform such an act

This appears to be eliminating the ludicrous rule about needing to maintain possession all the way to the ground.

That part of the rule has taken what should have been catches by most accounts away from receivers far too many times in the NFL.

One catch that jumps to mind for me…