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Old Thu Sep 10, 2009, 06:32am
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Originally Posted by mikesears View Post
R signals for a fair catch. R muffs the attempt to catch the kick into the air. K contacts him to possess the ball. Your reading would call this KCI. Casebook play 6.5.6E says this is legal.
A muff ends R's "unmolested opportunity to catch the ball." He screwed it up, and he may be hit.

That's different from insisting that R may be creamed the instant he touches the ball (as the NFL allows, for example).
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