Blocking a receiver Question

[Juxone]

If a legal receiver is running down field and is blocked (without first making contact) before a pass isn't this an illegal block and treated as a holding call, 2) if the ball is in the air does this think become defensiveness pass interference? I ask this after reading the rule 7-5-10 Rule: 7-5-10

It is forward-pass interference if:
a. Any player of A or B who is beyond the neutral zone interferes with an eligible opponent's opportunity to move toward, catch or bat the pass.

[Cliffdweller]

1. No
2. Yes (DPI)

[JRutledge]

It is never a penalty if the offensive player is acting like a blocker. Then the defender can hit them if they are an eligible receiver, unless of course the ball is in the air and in the direction of that receiver.

Peace

[HLin NC]

He is a potential blocker until he has achieved the same yard line or is moving past the defender and the pass has not been thrown.

[Welpe]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

It is never a penalty if the offensive player is acting like a blocker. Then the defender can hit them if they are an eligible receiver, unless of course the ball is in the air and in the direction of that receiver.

Peace

This.

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Originally Posted by HLin NC

He is a potential blocker until he has achieved the same yard line or is moving past the defender and the pass has not been thrown.

This.

There is no "illegal contact" in NFHS or NCAA rules like there is in the NFL (which this year means the defender breathed heavily on the receiver). The only potential foul you could have is illegal use of the hands if and only if the receiver being blocked is no longer a potential blocker as HLinNC defined above.

[bisonlj]

Originally Posted by Welpe

The only potential foul you could have is illegal use of the hands if and only if the receiver being blocked is no longer a potential blocker as HLinNC defined above.

You could have holding if he grasps or restricts the receiver in a manner other than a legal block.

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by Juxone

If a legal receiver is running down field and is blocked (without first making contact) before a pass isn't this an illegal block and treated as a holding call, 2) if the ball is in the air does this think become defensive pass interference? I ask this after reading the rule 7-5-10 Rule: 7-5-10

It is forward-pass interference if:
a. Any player of A or B who is beyond the neutral zone interferes with an eligible opponent's opportunity to move toward, catch or bat the pass.

You can't presume a pass is going to be thrown, so the above passage refers only to the situation that obtains when there is an actual pass. Same with opportunity to catch a kick.