Each of the 24 person infractions that the NFL has listed has its own good baseline for first and subsequent offenses.
There is one new crime on that record this time: the hip-drop address.
Former NFL player Jon Runyan, the compliance official for person responsibilities, was appointed by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to tackle punishments stemming from on-field situations. That includes penalizing players for hip-drop tackles, which also include in-game 15-yard penalties and automatic first downs for the offense.
Hip-drop tackles are defined by the league as when a defender “grabs the runner with both hands or wraps the runner with both arms” and “unweights himself” by swiveling and dropping his hips and/or lower body, landing on and catching the runner’s leg( s ) at or below the knee.

Ravens tight end Mark Andrews suffered a severe ankle injury during the regular season against the Cincinnati Bengals last year. He missed the remainder of the regular season with a hip-drop tackle. The Ravens were outraged by this because Baltimore Head Coach John Harbaugh claimed he wanted the hip-drop tackle out of the game and it appeared to be a turning point for the NFL to outlaw it.
Hip-drop tackles were made prohibited by NFL owners prior to the 2024 season, as per a suggestion made by the nine-person Competition Committee made up of executives and coaches. In addition to the in-game 15-yard penalty flag, it will come with a first-time offense penalty of$ 16, 883 and second-time penalty of$ 22, 511—the same as horse-collar tackles, leg whips, hits on a defenseless player, blindside blocks and roughing the passer.
However, the fine cannot exceed 10 % of a player’s weekly earnings, the rookie minimum salary is about$ 47, 000 per game.
The only on-field personal foul violations that result in higher fines than hip-drop tackles are impermissible use of the helmet/launching, fighting, and incidents between players and officials.
Team owners overwhelmingly decided to outlaw the practice during the NFL’s annual rule review after receiving feedback from the Coaches Subcommittee and Player Safety Committee. The hip-drop tackle has been referred to as a” specific technique that causes lower extremity injuries at a rate 20 times higher than other tackles, resulting in an unacceptable risk to player health and safety” on the league’s official website.
Celebrating the decision, John Harbaugh told reporters,” It’s really a bad play, and it needed to be out. And guys are going to tackle just fine without the quote-unquote hip-drop tackle, because they tackled just fine without it for 100 years of football before that, when you never saw it, really”.
In a film review, the league saw two hip-drop tackles missed by referees on the field in the first two weeks of the 2024 preseason, according to NFL executive vice president Jeff Miller. Those would still draw regular-season fines for players even if flags were n’t thrown.

Yes, like any other fine associated with an on-field infraction, players may contest a hip-drop tackle fine to one of four appeals officers—Derrick Brooks, Ramon Foster, Kevin Mawae and Jordy Nelson—who are assigned cases at random.
The designated officer then evaluates the play in question independently to determine whether the alleged hip-drop tackle is acceptable and fair. If an appeals officer approves a punishment, the player has no other options. Their decision is final.