It's a 5-yard face mask. There's no such animal in the NFL anymore.
That said, the R would have a hard time seeing that -- he's bagging the fumble and watching the ball being retrieved -- so if there was a turn of the mask it would be a stretch to assume it would've been gotten by Green, although the U may have had a flag there.
I'm glad the ball was picked in the air, otherwise it might've been a replay of the tuck rule.
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