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Originally Posted by Adambr2
This one is driving me nuts because no matter how much I look this one up I have yet to find an explanation, even in the NFL rule book.
Routinely, I'll see a 5 yard defensive holding added to the end of a positive play rather than simply declined like any defensive offside or other minor defensive penalty would be.
Yet, this doesn't happen every time. At the end of a long play by the Steelers tonight, a 5 yard defensive holding was declined rather than added to the end of the run.
I can find nothing anywhere stating that a defensive holding penalty is unique in any way in this fashion.
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If during a pass play...enforcement is from the previous spot. If during a running play, it's tacked on from the end of the run (if the play doesn't end behind the LOS).
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