Player running OOB

[NorCalRef12]

Originally Posted by HLin NC

Illini Ref- if you'll utilize the search function here, you can find several discussion threads about this scenario. As it stands for what appeared to be the majority of officials opinions here, BY THE BOOK, this a legal play as there is no definition of inbounds. A minority opinion was that it is a foul but I don't think "ULC" (unsportsmanlike?) was rendered as the method of penalizing it.

I understand both POV on this topic and would hope to a) never actually see it on the field and b) hope the Fed cleans this up-which will probably take 3 years of refining a definition as they work through the Law of Unintended Consequences.

In California, this is to be interpreted as an Illegal Participation. The interpretation is that if one of the 22 players that starts the down is not OOB by definition, then he is inbounds. The state rules interpreter said that there isn't a no-man's land and this situation doesnt require a definition of inbounds.