If you thought the NFL’s newest rules for roughing-the-passer and whatever the heck a catch is were hard to interpret, boy, do I have awful news!
During Divisional Weekend, two critical injuries to the Dallas Cowboys’ Tony Pollard and the Kansas City Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes have put the seemingly staple “hip-drop” tackle in the spotlight. Pollard would suffer an ankle sprain and a broken leg after being brought down in this manner. A day earlier, a scrambling Mahomes would sustain a painful ankle injury of his own as a host of defenders tackled him in essentially the same way. (Mind you, this is an ankle ailment that could still bother the Kansas City superstar in Super Bowl 57.)
