NFL team owners, executives, head coaches and other league personnel will meet in Palm Beach, Florida over the next few days for the Annual League Meetings at The Breakers Hotel. It’s where all the league business pertaining to the 2025 season will be discussed and voted on.
Here are five things to watch out for:
1. Club proposals, playing rules, bylaws & resolutions
During the league meetings, teams will discuss proposals to change playing rules, bylaws and resolutions, submitted by teams and the NFL’s Competition Committee. For any rule change to go into effect for the 2025 season, it needs 75 percent of the ownership groups (24) to vote in favor.
Detroit submitted the following playing rule proposal and two bylaw proposals they would like to adopt:
- Eliminate the automatic first down aspect as a penalty imposed for defensive holding and illegal contact. (As it stands right now, it’s a five-yard penalty and an automatic first down for those infractions.)
- Amend the current playoff seeding format to allow Wild Card teams to be seeded higher than division champions if the Wild Card team has a better regular-season record.
- Exclude from the 90-player limit a player placed on Reserve/Injured before or on the day of the roster reduction to 53 players, unless such player is designated for return.
Other proposals being voted on include prohibiting the ‘tush push’ play (submitted by Green Bay) and aligning regular-season overtime rules with postseason rules where each team has a chance to possess the ball (submitted by Philadelphia). The full list of all playing rule, bylaw and resolution proposals can be found here.
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