Fed: shifts involving potential snapper

[Robert Goodman]

You may be interested in how the discussion has gone there --
CoachHuey.com . The position I'd taken is the same as jTheUmp's above, based on the fact that nobody is officially on team A's line until there's a snapper, and there's no snapper until someone's hand is on the ball. There can be false starts even without a player's being on team A's line, of course, but the specific restriction regarding interior OL with a hand on or near the ground is relevant only to players whose heads break the plane of the snapper's waist. Two people at Huey's say common sense dictates considering players of A to be on the line based on one of them being near the ball even though not touching it.