Thread: Touchback?
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Old Wed Aug 28, 2013, 04:18pm
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Originally Posted by mrerrl View Post
I believe that since he possessed it outside the goalline it is not a touchback and he must take it out. If he gets tackled in the endzone it would R's ball on the 2 yd line.
It is not anything until the ball is ruled dead in the end zone. There is also no such requirement to bring it out. If R does bring it out, then they will be down wherever they are downed as long as they remain in possession.

The exception is just to protect from a cheap safety for a player going into their own EZ.

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