Recapping the NFL's new safety rules: What you need to know

Published: Apr 06, 2015 at 07:25 AM

By Bill Bradley, contributing editor

Last month, the NFL passed five new player-safety rules during the Annual Meeting in Phoenix.

Every day last week, NFL Evolution explained the five new rules in capsule form. Here are the links to all five capsules about the new rules:

Monday: Creation of the medical timeout.

Tuesday: New punt-formation penalty to protect long snappers.

Wednesday: Expansion of the peel-back-block rule.

Thursday: Expansion of the chop-block rule.

Friday: Expansion of the defenseless receiver rule.

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