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If a player who is not aneligiblereceiverreceives a thrown pass, the team could be penalized.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A tribute goes to the nexteligiblereceiveraccording to players physical position.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The referee then announces that the ineligible number x is reporting as aneligiblereceiver.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.If, for example, eight men line up on the line of scrimmage, the team loses aneligiblereceiver.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A player who is not wearing a number that corresponds to aneligiblereceiveris ineligible even if he lines up in an eligible position.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Such positioning allows another player, usually the tight end, to become theeligiblereceiveron that side of the line.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Theeligiblereceiverruns parallel to the line of scrimmage till near the sidelines and turns toward the quarterback to wait for the pass.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A member of the offensive team considered aneligiblereceiverby the rules of the game, in most leagues, are the running backs, wide receivers, and tight ends.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Also, if a pass is touched by anyeligiblereceiver(tipped by a defensive lineman, slips through a receiver's hands, etc.), every offensive player immediately becomes eligible.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The tackle-eligible play typically goes unnoticed, but for one prominent exception: when the player reporting as aneligiblereceivercatches a forward pass (usually for a very short touchdown).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.On the other hand, they are eligible receivers adept enough to warrant a defense's attention when running pass patterns.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Although they are eligible receivers they rarely go out for passes and are usually only used for screen passes when they do.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, because they are eligible receivers, they may also catch passes.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Of the players on the line of scrimmage, only the two players on the ends of the line of scrimmage are eligible receivers.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The rules on eligible receivers only apply to forward passes.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These players are eligible receivers and may play near the linemen (tight ends) or farther away (split end or wide receiver).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In many leagues eligible receivers must wear certain uniform numbers, so that the officials can more easily distinguish between eligible and ineligible receivers.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A further development of the play is a halfback option pass, with the quarterback being one of the eligible receivers.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A rules change in 2008 switched numbers 4049 from offensive linemen to eligible receivers.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The two players who begin play at the ends of the offensive line are eligible receivers, as are all players in the backfield.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.