Roughing the passer has suddenly become the most debated NFL penalty in 2022 with the Chiefs’ Chris Jones and Falcons’ Grady Jarrett suffering for their hits on quarterbacks — but what are the origins of the rule?
To put it in the simplest terms, a penalty is called if a passer is, in the referee’s judgment, dealt an unwarranted hit that was avoidable by the defender. If a flag is thrown, it is a 15-yard penalty and an automatic first down for the offense.official NFL rulebook“Roughing will be called if a pass rusher clearly should have known that the ball had already left the passer’s hand before contact was made.
This encourages defenders to wrap up the passer, rather than landing on him while making a sack or hit. “A defensive player is prohibited from clubbing the arm of a passer during a pass or just after a pass has been thrown; however, a defensive player may grasp, pull, or otherwise make normal contact with a passer’s arm in attempting to tackle him.”
Any shot at the passer’s knee is a penalty, and the only way a penalty won’t be called is if the defender is blocked into the passer and can’t avoid him. “When the passer goes outside the pocket area, he loses the protection of the one-step rule provided for in above, and the protection against a low hit provided for in above, but he remains covered by all the other special protections afforded to a passer in the pocket , as well as the regular unnecessary roughness rules.”
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