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On just standard scrimmage plays there is no foul for a player running OOB and returning. As you have found he just becomes ineligible to touch a legal forward pass prior to it touching a team B player or an official. As far as coming back in and touching a fumble there is no foul for doing that. There is a foul for going out of bounds and returning during a scrimmage kick and free kick by team A. Rule 6-3-12 covers the scrimmage kick and rule 6-1-2-g covers free kicks. Those two rules are basically the same. If a player of the kicking team goes OOB voluntarily and returns he has fouled. The foul is simply for going OOB and returning. A couple of years ago it was a foul for touching the ball in that scenario, but that rule was changed and is no longer a foul for touching the ball.
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