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Originally Posted by bigjohn
ART. 3 . . . A defensive player shall not:
d. Contact an eligible receiver who is no longer a potential blocker.
I mean it says contact.
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I don't have all the intervening years' rule books, but I'm pretty sure research will show that to have been an editing error when a previous phrase or clause saying "use hands or arms to" was deleted in favor of the current introductory language of that section. Why else would it be in the section on use of the hands instead of that on contact in general?