Illegal Participation, Illegal Touching, Nothing

[wisref2]

If he's still OOB and touches the ball, you have nothing except a dead ball. He never returned to the field so you can't have IP. By rule, if the ball touches a player who is OOB, the ball is dead OOB at that spot.

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by wisref2

If he's still OOB and touches the ball, you have nothing except a dead ball. He never returned to the field so you can't have IP. By rule, if the ball touches a player who is OOB, the ball is dead OOB at that spot.

Good point. I missed that. Seems kinda unfair to me.

[waltjp]

There was a similar discussion recently (Can't recall if it was here of another forum) about an offensive player who fumbled just before going out of bounds and whether it was IP if he touched the ball in an attempt to recover the fumble while he was OOB and the ball was in bounds.