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I am guessing that you would get little to no help on this one. BJ also has his keys and may be looking in a completely different direction. The opposite wing may be able to see something as well but would have a very funny looking flag. As a wing you can only hope that you don't get into a situation where you are forced to turn your back to the QB because then all of your timing as to when the pass is thrown is just a guess. But most any pass won't take more than a couple of seconds from release until it is at the receiver. So if the receiver is very quickly moving his arms away from the contact to catch the ball then there was probably contact while the ball was in the air. However based on your description of the play, I could see it going either way with having contact while the ball was in the air. But if you can't be confident the ball was in the air then you don't have a foul for DPI.
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