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Originally Posted by bearclause
There is an incentive - to possibly avoid getting tackled and/or being at risk for coughing up the ball. A player could conceivably run full sprint not properly securing the ball, but prepared to toss it forward if there's a possibility of a tackle that could create a fumble. It's the onus of the ball carrier to known when or when it is not safe to throw a forward pass or for the ball to be properly thrown backwards.
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That'd be ridiculously riskier of a fumble compared to being prepared to hit the dirt or (in some codes) cry "down".