On Tuesday, former NFL Vice President of Officiating and current Fox Sports rules analyst Mike Pereira took to Twitter to detail some new rule changes that you may not see listed as “new” in the official sense.
Just caught a glimpse of the new rule book. It's not final as the replay rule is being rewritten. Interesting…
Interesting because there are rule changes that are not listed as changes even though they are changes. Happens every year. Examples….
Apparently the NFL does this cute thing where they add new specific rules into the rule book based on discrepancies from the previous season but don’t list them as new rules because they believed them to have been previously implied; despite the fact that the original discrepancy inspiring the rule change occurred because they were merely implied and not written rules.