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6-4 IF THE KICK BECOMES DEAD IN K S END ZONE
If the force is: The kick or any other new force by K. Then the ruling is: Safety, if the kick is out of bounds or K has possession, including when the ball is loose or Touchdown if R is in possession.
If the force is: A new force by R: Touchback, if the kick is out of bounds, or K has possession, including when the ball is loose or Touchdown if R is in possession.
As 6-2-6 states: The touching of a low scrimmage kick by any player is ignored if the touching is in or behind the expanded neutral zone. I would assume from this that touching beyond the expanded neutral zone is not ignored. Thus during a scrimmage kick an R player could be hit by a ball 5 yards beyond the LOS and the ball could bounce back into K's endzone. This would be a touchback as R forced it into K's endzone.
So by the same thought process I would award K a touchback as R forced the ball into K's endzone. I may be using an odd thought process but I still say it is a touchback.
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