Seven months after the NFL Players Association came out against the NFL’s consideration to ban the “Hip-Drop” tackle, the league is again trying to best define the tackle and subsequently remove it from the game, according to NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport.
Interesting note from NFL EVP Jeff Miller, here at the league meetings in NYC: Hip drop tackles, like the kind that injured Geno Smith a few weeks ago, result in 25x the injuries of other tackles. Every week, a player is injured by one. NFL hopes to define it… and remove it.