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Originally Posted by Welpe
...b) Intentional grounding by the QB, illegal touching by the lineman. If the IG penalty is accepted, it will be a safety. If the illegal touching is accepted, it will be enforced via the all but one principle that I outlined above...
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REPLY: One issue with the above ruling: If you rule intentional grounding (an illegal forward pass), I don't believe you can have illegal touching. Since illegal touching is by an 'ineligible,' and since eligibility applies only to
legal forward passes (NF 7-5-6), I don't think illegal touching is possible.