The sort out that injured Tampa Bay Buccaneers vast receiver Chris Godwin Monday night time is reportedly being investigated by the NFL to see if it accommodates parts of the hip-drop takedown, which the NFL banned from play in March.
The sort out occurred within the closing minute of Monday night time’s sport between the Buccaneers and Baltimore Ravens, which the Ravens gained 41-31. Ravens linebacker Roquan Smith and one other Ravens defender ran at Godwin, who was attempting to get a primary down, and it was Smith who ended up dropping Godwin to the bottom.
It was instantly apparent after the play that Godwin was in plenty of ache. He was ultimately carted off and head coach Todd Bowles mentioned after the sport that Godwin doubtless had a dislocated ankle. He’ll reportedly have surgical procedure this week and miss the remainder of the season.
Whereas the sort out wasn’t recognized as a hip-drop on the sector, ESPN’s Adam Schefter mentioned that the sort out “seems to have all the weather” of a hip-drop sort out. Here is the definition of a hip-drop sort out, straight from the NFL’s soccer operations web site.
A hip-drop sort out happens when a defender wraps up a ball service and rotates or swivels his hips, unweighting himself and dropping onto ball service’s legs in the course of the sort out.
If it had been recognized as a hip-drop sort out on the sector, the Ravens would have been given a 15-yard penalty, the Bucs would have been awarded an computerized first down, and Smith would have been mechanically fined $16,883 (the identical as with horse-collar tackles, blindside blocks, and so on). Smith will nonetheless be fined if the NFL determines he used a hip-drop sort out on Godwin.
