No longer will the kickoff serve as football’s equivalent of the Bingo Free Space. The gimme, the play that isn’t a play and gives you a few more seconds to get back from the fridge. No longer will you see “commercial, kickoff, touchback, commercial” with absolutely zero football happening (you’ll still get that sequence but hopefully with a tackle sandwiched between).
With the NFL radically altering how kickoffs look in 2024, safety and special teams captain Miles Killebrew thinks football is entering a brave new world.
“The biggest change is it’s actually going to be a play now,” he told reporters via the team’s YouTube channel Thursday afternoon.