Helmet Contact Enforcement

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by bigjohn

Son of a gun, I got two IHCs called in my game friday night (had to remind them fist about the POEs and such).
Enforcement question. If there is holding on A beyond the LOS and it is a pass shouldn't the penalty be walked off from the previous spot and not the spot 5 or 10 yards down field. We had 2 or 3 called on our opponent but they gained yardage even after the penalty, once. They were forward passes.

It depends when the holding occurs. If it occurs after the pass is caught, then the basic spot is the end of the run. So if the foul occurs behind the basic spot, it will be enforced from the spot of the foul; otherwise, from the end of the run.

[bigjohn]

If the holding occurred before the ball was caught, ball in flight, it would be OPI, if it happened before the ball was thrown but down field where do you walk it off?

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by bigjohn

If the holding occurred before the ball was caught, ball in flight, it would be OPI, if it happened before the ball was thrown but down field where do you walk it off?

Pass interference is a previous spot enforcement, but just from the facts you state (including downfield location), we don't know whether it was pass interference. We'd have to know where the pass ended and, if that didn't decide it, whether the contact impeded an opponent's effort to move toward the loose ball.