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[ajmc]

A reasonable question. There are numerous, and often significant differences, between NFL, NCAA and NFHS football rule codes. The situation you cite is one of the significant differences.

There are a separate, and somewhat unique sub-set of rules that apply only to the kicking game in the NFHS code, but they are all dependent, and only come into play, when the ball has actually been kicked (different from the NFL version).

Under the NFHS code, regardless of fakes, trickery or (legal) attempts to conceal the action, throwing a legal forward pass, under the NFHS code, is considered a pass play and is subject to different sub-set of rules specifically related to pass plays, any legal pass play.