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We know how Fed wants these cases ruled. It's just that they're being inconsistent if they're claiming to derive it from their concepts of "runner" and "possession".
For contrast, consider the situation if the receiver just touches the pass while the ball is in the opposing end zone, and then from an opponent's push winds up first controlling the ball while it's in the field of play. You can't rule progress to the end zone because not all of the conditions to make him a runner existed at that time. But it would appear in the case of controlling the ball while not touching the ground, he is allowed to have progress even though he doesnt satisfy all those conditions either.
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