NFL Rules Question

[JRutledge]

It was just a year or two that they allowed the defense to have a player with a transmitter in their helmet. The QB has been allowed to do this for years now. I would probably suspect this has been 10 years or so now that rule has been in place and QBs have been using a transmitter and the green dot indicated it was in their helmet.

Peace

[CT1]

So how do they know if the "green-stickered" player is the only one with a radio? And what do they do about it if he's not?

[jdmara]

Originally Posted by CT1

So how do they know if the "green-stickered" player is the only one with a radio? And what do they do about it if he's not?

You don't trust the NFL franchises to play fairly and only allow the quarterback and one defensive player to have the device

-Josh

[jTheUmp]

I'm assuming they do some kind of spot-checks for stuff like that, similar making sure that players uniforms don't have any foreign substances on them (which we had a discussion about here.)

As for what they'd do if they discovered a team violating that rule... I don't know, but I suspect that there would be some pretty hefty punishment.