The very first complete Sunday of the 2024 NFL season used football fans a complete take a look at the league’s brand-new “vibrant kickoff” guidelines.
And we lastly have our very first genuinely vibrant play under these guidelines, with the very first kickoff return goal of the 2024 NFL season.
After a Josh Allen scramble for a goal offered the Buffalo Bills a 31-20 lead over the Arizona Cardinals, the groups lined up for the next installation of the NFL’s brand-new kickoff format. Buffalo kicker Tyler Bass lofted a kick down to the Arizona 4-yard line, inside the “landing zone” that is a function of the league’s brand-new kickoff guideline.
Arizona returner DeeJay Dallas settled under the kick from Bass, and 96 backyards later on, Dallas remained in the NFL record books, as the very first returner to take a sit back for a goal under the brand-new guidelines:
The huge minute in the return happened Arizona’s 40-yard line when Dallas had the ability to slice through a trio of Buffalo gamers, staying upright as he raced into Buffalo area. From there it was a footrace, a footrace that Dallas won.
All the method into the NFL record book.