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Originally Posted by johnnyg08

FED Football officials:

To what degree do you protect the punter while in punting formation begins to run laterally (either left or right) and then kicks the football?

Here's how I look at it.

If this was a passer, would you have called roughing the passer?

The standard is the same: Was the contact avoidable? If not, I've got nothing. If it was avoidable, the defender could have pulled up and didn't.

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