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2-32-15 A substitute is a team member who may replace a player or fill a player vacancy. A substitute becomes a player when he enters the field and communicates with a teammate or an official, enters the huddle, is positioned in a formation or participates in the play. An entering substitute is not considered to be a player for encroachment restrictions until he is on his team’s side of the neutral zone. A team member entering the field to fill a player vacancy remains a substitute until he is on his team’s side of the neutral zone.
So once he took a position on the line he was positioned in a formation and thus became a player. One of the players that were on the field also left in a timely manner so you had a legal substitution. The entering player also was inside the numbers at some point between the RFP and the snap, I think mbcrowder misread that, so they did everything they needed to do. The other team is confused about any requirement for being in the huddle.
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