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NFL Week 3
As the NFL’s return specialists take the field this season, it’s now a fair comparison to say they’re stepping to the plate.
The league’s most recent rule tweaks have essentially turned kickers into baseball pitchers. Now incentivized to put kickoffs in play, kickers and special teams coaches are inventing new styles of kicking that make kickoffs more difficult for returners to track, catch and (most importantly) flip into substantial chunks of yardage or touchdowns.
The arsenal is ever-increasing. The known kicks don’t even have official names. The Philadelphia Eagles have their own terms. Return specialists Tank Bigsby, John Metchie III and Britain Covey are still assigning names to the 256 league-wide kickoffs they’ve seen through two weeks — and the ones yet to come. The names sound like baseball pitches. Some are. They each capture the “Oh, boy” essence of what’s now going through a returner’s mind after a football meets a foot.
