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Just to clarify, the touching of R in this situation will be ignored only if it is caused by K pushing or blocking R into the ball. It would not be ignored if, while R was blocking K, the ball bounced back into R. This same play happened in the Oklahoma-Boise State game. R1 was blocking K1 on a punt when the ball hit the ground and took a bounce back toward the line of scrimmage and struck R in the back while he was in contact with K1. The ball was then recovered by K2 and K got possession.
In other words, just because blocking is going on, the touching is not ignored. K has to force the touching.
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