Roughing the kicker

[jransom]

Originally posted by Warrenkicker
...Now when contact is unavoidable because it is not reasonably certain that a kick will be made then you can have an untouched kick and the kicker run into or roughed and still not have a foul 9-4-4.

Be careful on this one...roughing is roughing. This rule provides a little bit of leeway on contact with the kicker, but if a legal kick is made and a player becomes a kicker he is afforded protection, and if he gets roughed then call it. Remember, a personal foul should be called regardless of the situation.

Having said that, IMO there is more of a fine line between a no call and "running into" than there is between "running into" and roughing.

Jonathan