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Originally Posted by boboman316
Because the penalty occurred during a loose ball, it should be enforced from the previous spot (?).
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ART. 1 . . . A loose-ball play is action during:
a. A free kick or scrimmage kick other than post-scrimmage kick fouls.
b. A legal forward pass.
c. A backward pass (including the snap), an illegal kick or fumble made by A
from in or behind the neutral zone prior to a change of team possession.
d. The run or runs which precedes such legal or illegal kick, legal forward
pass, backward pass or fumble.
Don't confuse a "loose ball" with a "loose ball play". There can be multiple runs during a play but there can only be one loose ball play and that will happen at the beginning of the down. You do have to wait for the play to develop before you can tell where the loose ball play ends and the subsequent running play starts if there is one. Once the ball was intercepted you have a running play and ABO enforcement. It appears that the illegal kick occurred at the same yard line as the end of the run so it's enforced from there.