Only a few hours after a fractured right ankle prematurely ended his season two years ago, Kenyan Drake's frustration spilled onto social media.
SANTA CLARA, CA - JANUARY 22: Dallas Cowboys running back Tony Pollard is tackled and twists his ankle during the NFL NFC Divisional Playoff game between the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers at Levis Stadium in Santa Clara, CA. Only a few hours after a fractured right ankle prematurely ended his season two years ago, Kenyan Drake’s frustration spilled onto social media.
Any rule change that the NFL makes surely would be far more popular among quarterbacks or running backs than those who have to tackle them. Many defensive players argue that there are already too many rules limiting how they can legally bring down a ball carrier and that adding more rules only further skews the game in favor of the offense and bogs it down with more penalties.
Like Woodson, ex-Chargers pass rusher Shawne Merriman also loathes many recent NFL rule changes designed to protect vulnerable quarterbacks and receivers. He worries that the NFL is turning into “flag football,” that the league’s efforts to make the game safer and less violent are “teetering on the line of turning the hardcore fan away.”
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes limped off the field in the divisional round of last year's playoffs after Jacksonville Jaguars defensive lineman Arden Key. Only a day later, Dallas Cowboys running back Tony Pollard suffered a fractured fibula and a high ankle sprain when San Francisco 49ers defensive back Jimmie Wardthat the league had begun studying the risk posed by"that type of tackle.
Former all-pro defensive back Richard Sherman wrote this tackling technique was “just a desperation wrap up trying to prevent a ball carrier from gaining extra yards” and outlawing it “would be overkill.”calling on the NFL to"reconsider implementing a rule prohibiting the hip-drop tackle." The statement noted that even the NFL was having a difficult time defining what a hip-drop tackle actually was.
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