Give skilled position players the option to play with a flag. Penalty if you tackle someone with a flag. Tradeoff is that it’s harder to get yards after the catch, but dramatically lower risk of injury for these critical players.
I would expect nearly all QBs to use this option, and many older and more injury-prone players.
How do you prevent a WR from making a catch if you can’t play the body at the point of the catch? Put a flag on any skill player and they immediately become unguardable. No corner in the league is good enough to clamp even a league average WR with only deflections and interceptions (especially with all the other rules that boost offensive production)
Give skilled position players the option to play with a flag. Penalty if you tackle someone with a flag. Tradeoff is that it’s harder to get yards after the catch, but dramatically lower risk of injury for these critical players.
I would expect nearly all QBs to use this option, and many older and more injury-prone players.
How do you prevent a WR from making a catch if you can’t play the body at the point of the catch? Put a flag on any skill player and they immediately become unguardable. No corner in the league is good enough to clamp even a league average WR with only deflections and interceptions (especially with all the other rules that boost offensive production)