NFL releases 10 playing rule proposals to be voted on at league meeting

The NFL's annual league meeting is set to take place next week in Florida where a representative from each team will vote on potential rule changes.

This year, the competition committee has proposed seven changes to the playing rules, while NFL clubs have provided three potential modifications. The 10 rule proposals were released Thursday with owners set to vote next week:

1. By competition committee: Makes permanent the playing rule that changes the spot of the next snap after a touchback resulting from a free kick to the 25-yard line.

2. By competition committee: Changes standard for a catch.

3. By competition committee: Makes the penalties for illegal batting & kicking the same.

4. By Los Angeles Chargers: To add fouls for roughing the passer and fouls against players in a defenseless posture as reviewable plays in the instant replay system.

5. By Washington Redskins: To add review of personal fouls as reviewable plays in the instant replay system.

6. By New York Jets: To change the enforcement for defensive pass interference.

7. By competition committee: Authorizes the designated member of the officiating department to instruct on-field game officials to disqualify a player for a flagrant nonfootball act when a foul for that act is called on the field.

8. By competition committee: Conforms the amount of time in which a team must challenge a play if there is a television commercial break following the play in question.

9. By competition committee: Eliminates the requirement that a team who scores a winning touchdown at the end of regulation of a game to kick the extra point or go for two-point conversion.

10. By competition committee: If there is a turnover, a team may win an overtime game, even though it scores on its second possession.