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Originally Posted by Nevadaref
As Tony says, once player controls ends, that player or anyone else may recover the ball. Once the player loses the ball, there can be no traveling violation on this play. You must have player control to travel. (with the one exception of placing the ball on the floor and then standing up and picking it up.)
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Disagree completely. The player that lost(fumbled) the ball was an airborne player, as per the original post. If that player recovered the ball in the air, without another player touching it, and returned to the ground, that player then has travelled imo.
This is another one that we argued before. We disagreed then and we still disagree. Looks like TH has changed his mind since then though.
Airborne Fumble - Rule question.
And if the airborne player is the first to touch the ball after he returns to the floor, I'm still calling a travel under R4-43-3(b) and case play 4.43.3 SitB too. The airborne player did
not release the ball on a pass or a try, and I ain't gonna let him benefit just by dropping the ball.