Eight men on the line

[jTheUmp]

Legal.

The rule states that you must have at least 7 players on the line of scrimmage (FED) or no more than 4 in the backs (NCAA).

There's nothing that says that you can't have 8, 9, or 10 players on the LOS. (You can't have 11 on the LOS because if you did nobody could receive the snap).

Now, if A23 goes more than 3 yards downfield before a legal forward pass is thrown, then you've got a problem.

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by jTheUmp

(You can't have 11 on the LOS because if you did nobody could receive the snap).

I've seen that done twice in a game by a team that was getting walloped & conceding safeties by snapping thru the end zone.

[HLin NC]

Happens all the time in an overload formation. Coaches will sometimes even mention it in pre-game.