Why Do Players When They Break Away...

[cursona pirate]

I see this a lot when a player gets a breakaway they keep going when all the other players just give up. lets say your team got the winning score on the breakaway and you want to waste time right.......so the other team has a less of a chance of tying it. but instead they walk it in. i would wait for the other players to come get you before you go in. is there a rule you must go in or what?

[Wacko4Zacko]

I don't know? i think itd be a penalty for unsportsman like conduct. I mean if they ran for like 90 yards and then they literally stop exactly at the goal line and just stand thier....Then idk.

[Yatagarasu]

Brandon Stokley broke one toward the goalline from a fluke catch and then started running across the field at the 1 yard line to kill some time before walking in for the game winning TD against the Bengals on week 1.

I guess this tactic is sometimes plausible to win games.

[Guest Moderator 5]

This is fine as long as you're not holding the ball up taunting the opposition - the onus is on them to try to stop you anyway so if they've given you five seconds to run around on the one then it's their problem!

[ravenz_fan]

you beat me to it about the stokely play

[Reddawn36]

because a few years ago champ bailey was arguably the best and fastest CB in the NFL he broke an Int for 100 yards and got caught by a TE.... didn't get the TD