How hard would be rule possession if order reversed?

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Originally Posted by BktBallRef

That's not true. If a player is not touching OOB, then he is not considered to be OOB.

Example: WR A28 is forced OOB by DB B47. He leaps from OOB, catches the ball and lands inbounds. Legal play.

2-29-1
A player or other person is out of bounds when any part of the person is touching anything, other than another player or game official that is on or outside the sideline or end line.

There are several instances within NFHS rules that exempt a player from being penalized for some action that he was FORCED into by an opponent, by authorizing the ignoring of the FORCED contact, which is the principle that might (depending on how immediate the continuation suggested occurred) render your above example as a legal play.

However it was, and still is illogical and silly to try and interpret 2-20-1 to relate to a player who has voluntarily established himself as being OOB (by satisfying the verbiage of 2-29-1 and establishing himself as being OOB by "touching" the ground OOB) and subsequently, while remaining beyond the confines of the playing surface, leaping into the air.