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Originally posted by Warrenkicker
I would have to say that this was a false start. For it to be illegal motion I would say that the player must have already been in motion and just cut up early. I think your question has him leaving a set position early and not having been in motion.
But then I am a proponent of calling dead-ball false starts on backs who move early as long as they aren't going in motion and not calling those live-ball illegal shifts or illegal motion or just letting them go because the defense didn't react.
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To have a false start, the illegal action must occur PRIOR to the snap. Unless you rule that he simulated action at the snap, then back has done nothing illegal until the ball is snapped. Therefore is is a foul simultaneous with the snap - illegal motion.