The biggest NFL rule changes heading into the 2026 football season
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(WFRV) — Every year, the NFL releases an updated playbook with newly worded and changed rules, much to the chagrin and controversy of avid football watchers. The nearly 100-page playbook includes four substantive rule changes from its current edition to last year’s, two of which involve kickoffs. The first rule change concerns kickoff formations. Rule […]
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