The NFL wants hip-drop tackles out of the game completely. Armed with data that showed that the tackling technique is 20 to 25 times more likely to cause an injury than other tackles, NFL teams ...

NFL teams voted unanimously in 2024 to ban the hip-drop. “We were tracking about one hip-drop tackle per game and one time-loss-injury approximately every single week,” said Dawn Aponte, the NFL’s ...

PALM BEACH, Florida — The NFL has pushed the "tush push" for another ... wanting health and safety on every play. We voted for hip-drop tackle and a defenseless receiver.

There is a lot of debate about what actually constitutes a “hip drop” tackle, but common sense tells you that when any defender uses his own body weight to drag a player to the ground ...

Max Jorgensen was injured in this tackle.Credit ... he was hurt straight away,” McKellar said. Hip-drop tackles are banned in the NRL and the NFL but are not illegal in rugby.