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The NF has been pretty clear over the years that attempts to fool the defense into thinking a player is not a part of the play are illegal. They have talked about and ruled against pretended injuries, fake substitution, hanging out by the sideline, not ready to play (where is the tee, wrong ball) and other similar types of plays that are designed to make the opponent relax or disregard a player.
Obviously they can't think of or list every possible ruse, but this would be among the illegal ploys. 83 would seem to be trying to fool the defense into thinking he's coming off the field so don't they will not be paying attention to him. Call it IP or USC, but call it.
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