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Originally Posted by JugglingReferee
Yup.
IMHO, if the tip comes after illegal contact, and the ball is catchable after the tip, the DPI (or OPI) still remains a possibility.
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From the overhead shot it looks like the illegal contact caused caused the receiver not to be in position to make a reasonable attempt to catch the ball, of course, the officials did not have an overhead shot.
The defender obviously felt he was beat and interfering was the only way to prevent a touchdown, needless did he know his teammate would break up the pass.
Two things: we should blame Jamarcus Russell for throwing such a poor pass. For us NFHS guys this is pass interference since every pass is defined as catchable.