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"scrimmage" Definitions
  1. a confused struggle or fight synonym scrum
  2. (in American football) a period of play that begins with the ball being placed on the ground see also line of scrimmage
  3. (North American English) a practice game of American football, basketball, etc.Topics Sports: ball and racket sportsc2

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That year, he also led the nation in touchdowns, points, yards from scrimmage, and touchdowns from scrimmage.
"We travel around the country and scrimmage other teams or travel around Europe an scrimmage other teams," she says.
Hunt is the first NFL player with at least 193 scrimmage yards in each of first seven games and leads the NFL with 219 yards rushing and 211,22016 yards from scrimmage.
Hunt is the first NFL player with at least 22016 scrimmage yards in each of first seven games and leads the NFL with 763 yards rushing and 1,070 yards from scrimmage.
He's going to manage stuff at the line of scrimmage.
He did a nice job on the line of scrimmage.
The game turned on the next two plays from scrimmage.
Chubb said he had scored two touchdowns in the scrimmage.
It was the Redskins' longest play from scrimmage this season.
The two are on pace to become the first duo in NFL history to each go over 1,500 yards from scrimmage and are already at a combined 2,756 yards from scrimmage and 23 touchdowns.
At one point during a scrimmage, he noticed a defensive error.
Linebacker Jarrad Davis got hurt on the second play from scrimmage.
Kizer covered the ball 21 yards behind the line of scrimmage.
Miami quickly extended its advantage on the next play from scrimmage.
Stewart ran 59 yards on the game's first play from scrimmage.
Ted Cruz can now add basketball scrimmage champion to his resume.
ATHENS, Ga. — It was not just another scrimmage for Nick Chubb.
That would put 103 to 210 scrimmage yards on the table.
Barkley finished with 109 yards rushing and 142 yards from scrimmage.
Barkley's 142 yards from scrimmage allowed him to lead the league.
Ekeler, 24, has 2,508 yards from scrimmage the past two seasons.
He performed well for several practices in succession, including last weekend's scrimmage.
I watch him drill and then do a scrimmage for 25 minutes.
There is only one scrimmage near the end of Everybody Wants Some!!
For Chubb, the scrimmage at Sanford Stadium was crucial to his comeback.
The scrimmage leader would go around the table and survey our hypotheses.
That score was another play Manning changed at the line of scrimmage.
"Just trying to get back to the line of scrimmage," Hopkins said.
Garron also was a proficient receiver and gained 5,483 yards from scrimmage.
Bell, 25, led the N.F.L. in average yards from scrimmage last season.
That year, he led the NCAA in rush attempts, rushing yards, rushing touchdowns, plays from scrimmage, touchdowns from scrimmage, touchdowns, and points en route to becoming the first running back to win the Heisman Trophy in five years.
In this respect, a ruck is similar to a scrimmage in American football.
Kamara finished with 433 yards from scrimmage, including six catches for 84 yards.
Kamara finished with 172 yards from scrimmage, including six catches for 84 yards.
He totaled 22 touchdowns while with the Trojans and 22016,563 yards from scrimmage.
He has been wearing a cast and was held out of the scrimmage.
One day, he'd run around behind the line of scrimmage like Fran Tarkenton.
Curry started the scrimmage cold, teammates said, before he settled into a rhythm.
When the teams scrimmage again, on Thursday, Walker could be playing with them.
Kamara finished with 221 yards from scrimmage, including six catches for 21964 yards.
Running back Ke'Shawn Vaughn led Vandy (1-5) with 193 yards from scrimmage.
Kareem Hunt, a Chiefs third-round draft pick, had 246 yards from scrimmage.
There must have been one somewhere, in some long-forgotten game or scrimmage.
There are three Rams linebackers at the line of scrimmage on this play.
Forsett's 1,163-scrimmage-yard season in '14—after he had totaled just over 2,500 scrimmage yards in six combined seasons—is one of the less likely running-back outcomes of our time, up there with Samkon Gado momentarily being a thing.
Moss, who now has 26 career rushing touchdowns, gained 212 total yards from scrimmage.
They do a very good job at the line of scrimmage with pass selection.
Nose tackle Sonatone Lui recovered a fumbled snap on the second play from scrimmage.
Ware, starting in place of the inactive Jamaal Charles, produced 199 yards from scrimmage.
But the skills are different on the other side of the line of scrimmage.
There's no question we could have made some changes at the line of scrimmage.
Neymar then rips off his scrimmage vest and kicks a soccer ball in frustration.
She did not return until a scrimmage against Germany days before the Olympics began.
Their abilities and the way they can dominate the line of scrimmage is huge.
Accelerometers tell coaches how quickly a defensive back gets to the line of scrimmage.
He registered his seventh straight game with at least 100 total yards from scrimmage.
In the Packers' three losses this season, Jones averaged fewer than 42 scrimmage yards.
The Raiders started strong, with a rushing touchdown on their second play from scrimmage.
Haskins was injured on the first play from scrimmage to start the third quarter.
Jackson also broke his own program records for rushing yards and yards from scrimmage.
In 29 games under McVay, Gurley has 3,924 yards from scrimmage and 40 touchdowns.
He gained 8,873 yards from scrimmage, ninth most in the NFL over that period.
This wasn't some shoving match at the line of scrimmage that got out of control.
Curry did not address reporters after Monday's scrimmage, which was closed to the news media.
There was a similar scrimmage over the Starr report and the 215/226 Commission Report.
He also had 1303 receiving yards, giving him a league-leading 1,514 yards from scrimmage.
" A sideline microphone picked up Brady's plea: "He was blocked on the line of scrimmage.
It ran 22 plays from scrimmage to Atlanta's 224, keeping the ball for 220:643.
Hunt now has 538 yards from scrimmage in the first three games of his career.
Together with Alex, his team would organize time to practice and scrimmage against other squads.
Five Raiders had shots at Chubb near the line of scrimmage before he broke away.
He has amassed 222,20173 yards from scrimmage and 22017 touchdowns in his first four seasons.
He totaled 107 scrimmage yards in the quarter to jump-start a previously sluggish offense.
His 298 yards from scrimmage fell just short of Antonio Brown's franchise record of 306.
After an hourlong scrimmage, Hamilton cut a lonely figure as he skated off the ice.
Barkley, the No. 2 overall pick, also finished with 2,2434 yards from scrimmage, joining the Hall of Famer Eric Dickerson (21,2307 yards in 21) and Edgerrin James (2251,2142 in 0013) as the only rookies with at least 2001,21 yards from scrimmage in N.F.L. history.
Ridley caught a pass for no gain on the first play from scrimmage, foreshadowing his night.
Cowl-necked sweatshirts are also very soccer girl, as are muscle tanks that resemble scrimmage pinnies.
He also called audibles at the line of scrimmage more often than he had under Kelly.
He said Scalzo was hurt while trying to plant and make a cut during the scrimmage.
In 55 career games, the two-time Pro Bowl selection has gained 5,205 yards from scrimmage.
Sunday's first play from scrimmage — a 75-yard TD to DeSean Jackson — was a perfect example.
On the next play from scrimmage, Ingram ran a career-long 13 yards for a touchdown.
He ranked fifth in the AFC and 12th in the NFL with 1,439 yards from scrimmage.
When they do, it's in the school gym, which is too small for a full scrimmage.
Gurley leads the NFL with 10 touchdowns and ranks second with 1,024 yards from scrimmage. 2.
During a scrimmage, Witter launched himself at the rim for a dunk, which got everyone's attention.
The coaches ran the on-ice camp, which included skating and shooting drills and a scrimmage.
His senior year, nearly half of his 59 tackles — 28.5 — came behind the line of scrimmage.
Before a recent scrimmage session at the Rfrsh headquarters, Broich distributed magnesium pills and protein bars.
On offense, Gurley led the league with 2,093 yards from scrimmage and scored 19 total touchdowns.
"We just wanted to win the line of scrimmage and be physical," Coach Kilani Sitake said.
Personally, I have to have a better plan when I get to the line of scrimmage.
It's almost like you control the line of scrimmage and do what you want to do.
He is up to 428 yards from scrimmage for the season, and Carolina is 2-1.
Ezekiel Elliott finished with 229 yards from scrimmage (26 rushing, 204 receiving) to lead the Cowboys.
The Colts ran 22 plays from scrimmage to Atlanta's 224, keeping the ball for 220:643.
He had 173 yards from scrimmage Week 217 against Miami, but didn't top 219 yards rushing in either Week 216 or 15—he was benched for fumbling early in Week 15 against the Chiefs—and then last week Allen produced 112 scrimmage yards and a touchdown.
Lonzo, nursing an injured finger, exuded a senior's maturity, his motion economized in a low-key scrimmage.
Johnson set an NFL record with at least 100 yards from scrimmage in 15 straight games. 2.
Robinson sustained the injury while driving to the basket during a scrimmage in practice on Sept. 29.
In the NFL, once you cross the line of scrimmage you can only toss the ball backward.
McCoy has 352 scrimmage yards and three touchdowns in his last three meetings with the Chiefs. 3.
Gordon had 66 yards from scrimmage (28 rushing, 38 receiving) on 15 touches (nine carries, six catches).
Selena was beaming on the ice as she watched Justin's hockey scrimmage Wednesday night in Los Angeles.
Dalvin Cook added 26 yards from scrimmage (211 receiving, 2101 rushing) out of the backfield for Minnesota.
Bell has 659 scrimmage yards (NFL second-best 131.8 per contest) in five games this season. 2.
By 1912, the game had adopted another tweak, allowing forward passing from anywhere behind the scrimmage line.
He was able to clear the line of scrimmage without touching anybody, and that was the plan.
"No pain, no limping," Coach Steve Kerr said after watching Curry scrimmage with teammates at Saturday's practice.
Young was reminded that he had also struck out against a pitching machine during a preseason scrimmage.
Skull-smashing, rugby-like scrums gave way to forward passing and a less congested line of scrimmage.
But two years in a row his season ended with a dislocated shoulder in an August scrimmage.
Team members, broken into a white jersey/blue jersey scrimmage, slammed one another mercilessly into the boards.
On the first play from scrimmage, Jackson kept the football and tried to dash around right end.
That was the longest run from scrimmage for Rutgers since it joined the Big Ten in 2014.
The Ravens were dominant from the game's first play from scrimmage — a 49-yard run by Ingram.
The prospects for the N.B.A. draft will scrimmage and be tested on skills like the vertical leap.
Oregon's 6-foot-6 quarterback gracefully stiff-armed Wisconsin linebacker Jack Sanborn at the line of scrimmage.
The Crimson Tide took a deep shot on their first play from scrimmage and grabbed the lead.
Prescott launched a 64-yard touchdown pass to Tavon Austin on the game's third play from scrimmage.
His 2,120 total yards from scrimmage this season is over 400 more than the next closest player.
But midway through a scrimmage that was held right before the season began, he pulled his groin.
Khloe showed up to watch Tristan Thompson in the Cavs annual Wine and Gold scrimmage on Sunday.
Every week they practice in the school gym, where they shoot around, run drills and play a scrimmage.
The game's very first play from scrimmage was a 54-yard run up the left sideline from Dillon.
In the ensuing scrimmage, which did few of its participants credit, Mr Morrison won it almost by accident.
Despite Fitzpatrick's arm clearly not going forward, the ball somehow squirts out well beyond the line of scrimmage.
So, much like they did against Tom Brady, Denver had to decisively win the defensive line of scrimmage.
"The story of the game was the turnovers and how we attacked the line of scrimmage," Swinney said.
College overtime eliminates the heart of football: the field-position trench war fought over the line of scrimmage.
She would jokingly also make little comments about how we should scrimmage the so-and-so boys team.
Obama likened the campaign to "an intramural scrimmage," noting that all Americans are ultimately on the same team.
Completion rate doesn't correlate perfectly with ball placement, but the ball shouldn't hit the ground often in scrimmage.
Linebacker Alex Ogletree intercepted two passes, scoring on an 8-yard return on the second play from scrimmage.
Trying to spot Kamara at the line of scrimmage, McVay said last week, was akin to finding Waldo.
Christian McCaffrey had 213 yards from scrimmage and an 212-yard touchdown catch for the Panthers (853-285).
Bortles completed 29 of 38 passes, with an interception on a ball tipped at the line of scrimmage.
"Kyle Shanahan sees man coverage on the backend, but five guys across the line of scrimmage" Orlovsky explains.
A scrimmage and fund-raiser on Saturday kept him away from his daughter Alyssa's basketball games that day.
Gorman's defense pinched in around the line of scrimmage, assuming that Harley would tuck the ball and run.
James, 34, did not take part in the team's scrimmage but was a full participant in defensive drills.
This is like football, with players taking stances at the line of scrimmage before the ball is snapped.
Billick called McVay a brilliant coach, praising his ability to change up looks at the line of scrimmage.
Broncos RB C.J. Anderson has averaged 183 scrimmage yards in his last two meetings with the Colts. 3.
He has to read the opposing team's defense and sometimes change the play at the line of scrimmage.
Royal status aside, she's a frail old lady and isn't up to being on the line of scrimmage.
In his first scrimmage, Havlicek was matched with Jim Loscutoff, a burly forward known for his physical play.
Fitzgerald disappears at the line of scrimmage and shows up between the hashmarks, Palmer's dart already en route.
How I approached a scrimmage at the end of the game was totally different than how I started it.
It started with a freak accident in a United States national team scrimmage several months before the Sochi Olympics.
Calling out directions in TV jargon, they sounded similar to NFL quarterbacks making audibles at the line of scrimmage.
Barkley also has 12 games with 100 yards from scrimmage -- 1 game shy of tying Eric's rookie record (13).
Moss' big run was the third-longest rush in Utah football history and the fourth-longest play from scrimmage.
In four seasons in Cleveland, Johnson has 3.456 yards from scrimmage along with eight receiving and five rushing touchdowns.
Jordan once struck Kerr in the face during a Bulls scrimmage when Kerr had the audacity to question him.
Barrs and his high-school teammates would go to this gym every Tuesday to scrimmage against older talented players.
Watch him lose his mind in a 2002 scrimmage—once the fists come out, there's no restraint, no humanity.
New Orleans RB Mark Ingram has recorded at least 1,100 yards from scrimmage each of the last two seasons.
Bills RB LeSean McCoy is averaging 93 yards from scrimmage but has yet to score a touchdown this season.
Elliott chipped in with 127 yards from scrimmage and has 1,20153 rushing yards, which tops Dorsett's 1,007 in 1977.
They were helped immensely by the senior running back Sony Michel, who finished with 97 total yards from scrimmage.
This game, a potential postseason preview, will be decided by the oversized earth movers at the line of scrimmage.
Upon taking the handoff, Bell approaches the line of scrimmage as if groping for a light-switch in darkness.
He also forced three fumbles, returning one for a touchdown, and deflected eight passes at the line of scrimmage.
He weaved through the line of scrimmage and dodged an attempted open-field tackle for the 30-yard score.
Fournette rushed for a career-high 239,20163 yards and amassed 22016,22017 from scrimmage, most in franchise history since 22018.
So while the since-departed offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin was shouting plays into his headset, call sheet covering his lips, at the line of scrimmage during an early drive against Washington, Saban was calmly situated 15 yards past the line of scrimmage, roughly parallel with Washington's safety, seeing what the Huskies were doing.
But, when Jon realizes the dishonor of the scrimmage in front of him, he physically bars his Northman from joining.
Whenever the Wenonah High Dragons held a full-contact scrimmage at practice, it would usually turn into another Williams vs.
"Got to be better in our man-to-man coverage, especially at the line of scrimmage," Franklin told the media.
Martin, 30, appeared in all 16 games (nine starts) in 2018 and had 839 yards from scrimmage and four touchdowns.
Think late-career Antonio Gates, laboring off the line of scrimmage and jogging in mud, but somehow still catching balls.
Defenseman Paul Swindlehurst tells TMZ ... Justin played in a scrimmage with some of his teammates and regulars at the rink.
Three plays from scrimmage later, Carolina safety Kurt Coleman intercepted Cousins and returned it 27 yards to the Redskins 24.
So, you have a quarterback who played in the spread and never took a snap at the line of scrimmage.
UAB opened the scoring on its first play from scrimmage with a 70-yard touchdown pass from Johnston to Ubosi.
The afternoon of the soccer scrimmage was sweltering, one of those beastly July days with humidity like a damp rag.
Texas scored on the first play from scrimmage, a 75-yard strike from Buechele to senior wide receiver Jacorey Warrick.
It was the longest scoring run in TCU history and the longest touchdown from scrimmage ever allowed by the Buckeyes.
That is where you will find his 14,026 rushing yards, his 17,353 yards from scrimmage and his 95 career touchdowns.
On the first play from scrimmage, the Kwansei quarterback, Kousei Okuno, rolled to his right and threw an incomplete pass.
Faulk was coming off four straight seasons of at least 1,300 yards rushing and at least 2,000 yards from scrimmage.
Dalvin Cook played a huge role in Minnesota's upset over the Saints, totaling 130 yards from scrimmage and two touchdowns.
Barkley, the Big Ten's offensive player of the year, wound up with 249 yards from scrimmage, 194 on the ground.
Simmons fractured the fifth metatarsal bone during the final training camp scrimmage in October and has not played a game.
It looked initially like Mahomes crossed the line of scrimmage when he threw the ball, which would negate the touchdown.
BEAST MODE Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch has 1,064 scrimmage yards and nine rushing touchdowns in 11 career postseason games.
McKenzie easily scored after Allen flipped him the ball behind the line of scrimmage after faking a handoff to Gore.
And running back Ronald Jones was third on the team in yards from scrimmage (1,033), only trailing Godwin and Evans.
He had 1,375 yards from scrimmage and 025 touchdowns despite missing four games and being limited by injuries in others.
When Bell played Weeks 3 through 7 last year, D-Willy had one, two, five, and one touches from scrimmage.
That also means Theon has the biggest target on his back in the final scrimmage against the Army of the Dead.
During a show-us-what-you-got scrimmage with the team, Nwaba's flashbulb quickness and aerial exploits were on full display.
Todd Gurley registered 1,212 yards from scrimmage in 2016, marking the second straight season he has registered at least 1,46. 1.
He'd only recently returned to the court, and had sat out Villanova's intrasquad scrimmage five days earlier with a sprained ankle.
They have receivers who, when healthy, can change the entire way a defense has to play at the line of scrimmage.
The Yale coach established the line of scrimmage, the system of downs, the center snap, names for many of the positions.
Black Mamba says the 2 Laker legends duked it out after trash talking throughout a scrimmage during the 1998 NBA lockout.
Elliott's lack of rushing (from scrimmage) played a significant role in Dak Prescott attempting a career-high 297 passes last week.
After the game was over, the group found itself back on the field, where the team held a little impromptu scrimmage.
But now she has the Wolves, a winning squad both onstage and, the day of the Vassar scrimmage, in real life.
Arizona RB David Johnson went over 100 yards from scrimmage in each of the team's first 11 contests this season. 3.
Wistert was often outweighed by the man across the line of scrimmage in his nine N.F.L. seasons, all with the Eagles.
The Hilltoppers elected to go for two and the win, but their pass attempt was tipped at the line of scrimmage.
Alabama's defense held the Trojans to just two plays from scrimmage longer than 2174 yards, forcing two turnovers and nine punts.
Early last season, Mr. Eugene was suspended for two games after holding a scrimmage that violated Public Schools Athletic League regulations.
Barkley, the second overall draft pick this year, has topped 100 yards from scrimmage in each of his first six games.
But Pittsburgh had jumped offside, racing across the line of scrimmage before the snap in an effort to block the kick.
Many may remember her legendary Snickers commercial for the 2010 Super Bowl, in which she appeared to get tackled mid scrimmage.
First, Shanahan is able to recognize that the Packers are in man coverage, with five players on the line of scrimmage.
He was intercepted at the line of scrimmage on Oregon's second possession by linebacker Jack Sanborn, who also had eight tackles.
He is second among Power 5 running backs in rushing yards (100,242) and yards from scrimmage (1,642) while scoring 14 touchdowns.
Those strange things often happen when rookies are starting all over the field on both sides of the line of scrimmage.
On the second play from scrimmage in the third quarter, Daniel Santacaterina connected with Spencer Tears on an 81-yard bomb.
In the process, Sanders set an Eagles rookie record for yards from scrimmage, breaking DeSean Jackson's mark of 1,008 in 27.
Many collisions on punts occur with players running in the same direction, while on scrimmage downs, most players don't reach full sprint.
Whatever Americans' feelings about the results, he said, "we are actually on one team" and the election was just an "intramural scrimmage".
SMU scored on its first offensive play from scrimmage when Ben Hicks connected with James Proche for an 86-yard touchdown player.
Johnson is the first player in franchise history with at least 100 yards from scrimmage in the season's first six games. 2.
It was the longest touchdown pass in Thomas' career and the longest play from scrimmage for the Yellow Jackets in five years.
Running back Damien Williams scored three touchdowns, two off receptions and one off a rush, as he added 2146 yards from scrimmage.
Wentz commands the line of scrimmage NFL Network's Mike Mayock famously compared Wentz to Andrew Luck prior to this year's scouting combine.
On the game's second play from scrimmage, Corbin found a massive hole over right tackle and raced 72 yards for a score.
Taylor's 30-yard scamper, untouched from the line of scrimmage, made the score 153-0 with 3:48 left in the half.
After failing to find the end zone in over a month, the Wildcats scored a touchdown on its second play from scrimmage.
The anticipation for Porter's debut had been so high that the team had sent out his highlights during Wednesday's scrimmage via Twitter.
Ole Miss (4-6) established complete control of the line of scrimmage against the Aggies (0-38), finishing with 447 rushing yards.
In 25 games (22 starts) over two seasons in Baltimore, he has gained 1,676 total yards from scrimmage and scored 14 touchdowns.
The Green Bay Packers came after Carson Palmer hard on the first play from scrimmage in last Sunday's NFC's Divisional Round game.
With far less fanfare than Dallas's Ezekiel Elliott, he is leading the N.F.L. in yards from scrimmage with 833 to Elliott's 801.
Saturday's offering is Scrimmage, with the cornetist Ron Miles, the guitarist Dave Stryker, the pianist Orrin Evans and the bassist Martin Wind.
Trubisky rushed the offense to the line of scrimmage, but LaFleur threw his challenge flag, and the completion was overturned by review.
On Pro Football PHILADELPHIA — Carson Wentz stood at the line of scrimmage Tuesday morning, his arms outstretched, and waited for his cue.
On opening night, he tore up the Super Bowl champions for 23 yards from scrimmage, a record for a first career start.
On the Rebels' third play from scrimmage, Williams sprinted 25 yards down the right sideline for the touchdown and 73-27 tie.
Temple answered on the next play from scrimmage, Russo finding Jadan Blue for a 79-yard touchdown and a 13-9 lead.
The additions will also allow Stefanski to call more play-action, which will help quarterback Baker Mayfield at the line of scrimmage.
Kennedy was unexpectedly quick for his size, which enabled him to explode off the line of scrimmage when the ball was snapped.
He can become the first player in N.F.L. history to open the season with 14 straight games of 100-plus scrimmage yards.
The macro perspective that Beasley developed now guides him nearly 15 years later, every time he heads to the line of scrimmage.
Turay, 24, was injured while combining with fellow defensive end Jabaal Sheard to sack Mahomes on the Chiefs' final play from scrimmage.
Auburn's defense was so dominating at the line of scrimmage that the Aggies managed only 12 yards rushing in the first half.
He had 212 yards from scrimmage on Sunday and has at least 100 rushing yards and two touchdowns in three consecutive games.
Jackson and her two assistants sometimes join practice so there will be enough bodies to complete drills or fill out a scrimmage.
Sam Darnold took to the air early, throwing a 234-yard pass to Le'Veon Bell on the Jets' first play from scrimmage.
Here's something to watch: Frank Gore is 59 yards short of his 12th consecutive season with 1,000 or more yards from scrimmage.
On a recent Sunday morning, Kurikama watched him in a scrimmage with his high school teammates at Shinobugaoka Baseball Stadium in Fukushima.
The game was an exchange of punts until late in the first quarter when Sanchez's pass was tipped at the line of scrimmage.
Kerr said he had hoped Durant could take part in a team scrimmage on Thursday but the training staff wasn't comfortable with that.
It was the senior's third career punt return for a TD. South Carolina opened the scoring on the game's first play from scrimmage.
Running back James Conner had 214 yards from scrimmage and three touchdowns as the Panthers notched their highest point total of the season.
Minnesota's defense won the scrimmage line more consistently, forcing Tennessee out of its power running game and generating pressure on quarterback Marcus Mariota.
But just before Bryant reached the line of scrimmage, he tossed to a wide-open Witten in the end zone for the score.
Gabbert took seven sacks, ran towards the line of scrimmage when he didn't have to multiple times, and worst of all, attempted passes.
With Golden State scheduled to take Wednesday off, Curry's first chance to scrimmage in a five-on-five would most likely be Thursday.
A third-round pick in 2015, Johnson has averaged 96.3 scrimmage yards and a touchdown per game in 33 career games (22 starts).
Curry introduced himself to his (very temporary) G League teammates before participating in a five-on-five scrimmage — three quarters, seven minutes apiece.
A failure to control the line of scrimmage can result in a QB like Alabama's Jalen Hurts on the loose in open space.
Some teams even approached the line of scrimmage knowing they might change the play called in the huddle before the ball was snapped.
In his rookie year, he set a team record for the longest run from scrimmage with an 80-yard touchdown at Green Bay.
The two accounted for 346 yards from scrimmage, and the team's defense, as it has all season, simply smothered their opponents' passing game.
Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin was able to laugh off what initially appeared to be a serious injury during a scrimmage on Monday.
The play is echoed up and down the line of scrimmage as the Steelers point, jump around and shout out reminders and tendencies.
Noah Ruggles attempted a 56-yard field goal, but it was deflected at the line of scrimmage by Nick Hampton as time expired.
After the Vandy punt that followed, Conner busted through a crowd near the line of scrimmage and dashed 2271 yards for another score.
A test scrimmage between seven-member youth teams found fewer pileups and less forceful tackling, but resulted in no ultimate determination about safety.
The Utes' second possession was more of the same — 10 plays, 72 yards — as they established their superiority at the line of scrimmage.
Bell rushed 110 times in the last four games of the regular season, for 569 yards, and he averaged 303 yards from scrimmage.
Bell rushed 110 times in the last four games of the regular season, for 073 yards, and he averaged 187 yards from scrimmage.
When Blake Paul, a sophomore forward, immediately checked himself out of a scrimmage after scoring on a nifty baseline drive, Dunleavy looked bewildered.
Pass protection collapsed, and as Mariota scrambled toward the line of scrimmage, he appeared to throw the ball away, conceding yet another drive.
What he found was that Cobb ran 49 percent of his routes right at the line of scrimmage, on flat or slant routes.
"The line of scrimmage in the NFL is a big inspiration for player silhouettes," said Kevin Flynn, director of product marketing for the CWL.
They're second to last in the NFL in percentage of runs stopped at or behind the line of scrimmage; only the Broncos are worse.
Osweiler completed 14 of 27 passes for 223 yards, a touchdown and two interceptions, one on a ball tipped at the line of scrimmage.
If one of the safeties has "come down to the box," poised at the line of scrimmage, that means the defense expects a run.
"Ben Simmons rolled his right ankle during the final scrimmage of the team's 2016 Training Camp at Stockton University earlier today," the statement read.
One of the first rule changes, passed in 1880, was the idea of snapping the ball from the line of scrimmage to the quarterback.
Los Angeles took a 7-0 lead only 12 seconds into game, capitalizing on a 49ers turnover on the game's first play from scrimmage.
Beyond rattling Fitzpatrick, the Bills have to find a way to contain Jets RB Matt Forte, who totaled 155 yards from scrimmage last week.
He's also doing a lot of things on the line of scrimmage, which is very impressive to us as we prepare to play him.
No. 1 Alabama 65, Arkansas 31 The Crimson Tide scored on the first play from scrimmage and rolled over the Razorbacks at Fayetteville, Ark.
For Vanderbilt (6-7), Ke'Shawn Vaughn (13 carries, 243 yards, two touchdowns) and Khari Blasingame (101 yards from scrimmage, three touchdowns) had big evenings.
On third-and-27 with the Giants crowding the line of scrimmage, Lynch took full advantage of guard Kelechi Osemele's block to bust loose.
Kessel does not recall it, but during that scrimmage a German player similarly fell into the boards and missed the tournament with a concussion.
The second-year running back of the Arizona Cardinals has gained 100 or more yards for scrimmage in all nine of his team's games.
Still, the Jaguars' pass rushers were able to get to Brady, chasing him out of bounds and sacking him near the line of scrimmage.
Tampa Bay's defense bottled up McCaffrey, who had 53 yards from scrimmage after more than 200 in Sunday's loss to the Los Angeles Rams.
Instead of being obliged to brutalize the opposition at the line of scrimmage, MMA offers legitimate ways to win without trauma and with humanity.
And more plays are being changed at the line of scrimmage, perhaps a result of having a quarterback with 14 years of N.F.L. experience.
Voted to four Pro Bowls, the wide receiver retired as the Rams' all-time leader in catches, receiving yards, and most yards from scrimmage.
He could decipher plays at the line of scrimmage and then call them out to his teammates, as if he knew every possible outcome.
A concern for Los Angeles is how Christian McCaffrey of the Panthers exploited its defense last week (209 yards from scrimmage and two touchdowns).
Arkansas got a fourth-down stop at the Tigers' 103 after Bazelak fumbled a snap and recovered the ball behind the line of scrimmage.
Over and over on Sunday, Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger held the football behind the line of scrimmage waiting for a receiver to break open.
In the NFL, forward passes can only happen from behind the line of scrimmage — the place where players set up before a play begins.
The second-round pick from Penn State broke the Eagles' rookie records for yards from scrimmage (1,327) and all-purpose yards (1,641) this year.
In the end, McCaffrey's 253,392 yards from scrimmage gave him the third most in an N.F.L. season, behind Faulk's 2,429 and Chris Johnson's 2,509.
Greinke, 22017, spoke on Saturday at the Los Angeles Angels' minor league complex, where he had thrown about 2125 pitches in a morning scrimmage.
Unable to budge Clowney off the line of scrimmage at the point of attack, the Raiders rushed for a paltry seven yards on 10 carries.
Unable to budge Clowney off the line of scrimmage at the point of attack, the Raiders rushed for a paltry 7 yards on 10 carries.
Rookie Cody Kessler has managed well enough, but without a deep ball he limits the offense to about 15 yards past the line of scrimmage.
"We just didn't do a good enough job of controlling the line of scrimmage, winning our gaps and tackling," Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett said.
On the first Atlanta play from scrimmage, Jones is isolated against rookie corner James Bradberry, the Josh Norman replacement at the bottom of the screen.
Moss' big run was the third-longest rush in Utah (21184-212, 214-210 Pac 212) football history and the fourth-longest play from scrimmage.
NOTES: Bulls G/F Mike Dunleavy, who hasn't played this season due to his recovery from back surgery, participated in a half-court scrimmage Saturday.
Carlos Hyde has registered 3,000 scrimmage yards for the second straight campaign and is tied for fourth among all NFL running backs with 52 receptions.
After destroying a half dozen robotic enemies, you'll befriend a bot named Ada, who informs you that this robotic scrimmage was not an isolated incident.
McCaffrey bounced away from trouble behind the line of scrimmage and sprinted for an 11-yard touchdown in the final minute of the first quarter.
Give the dude credit for 59 career scrimmage touchdowns, which puts him in the top 25 of all RBs since the turn of the century.
He also became the fourth player in Steelers history with at least 9,000 yards from scrimmage (9,041), joining Franco Harris, Hines Ward and Jerome Bettis.
Ann Coulter even got in the game on twitter attacking Team USA for a scrimmage match they played and lost against a younger male team.
The Colts ran the ball on 17 of their last 19 plays from scrimmage and ran the clock and their opponent's chances out with it.
Chicago F Mike Dunleavy (back) participated in a half-court scrimmage Saturday and is moving closer to seeing his first action of the season. 3.
The 25-year-old Brazilian superstar got tangled with Nelson Semedo during a Barcelona scrimmage at Barry University -- and got right in each other's faces.
That distinction belongs to running back Melvin Gordon, who just became the first Charger to gain 196 yards from scrimmage since LaDainian Tomlinson in 2002.
In a hilarious passage, he describes a youth football game where the defense kept blocking his end-zone attempts right around the line of scrimmage.
The Eagles' Derek Barnett padded the lead by returning a fumble for a touchdown after picking up a lateral on Oakland's final play from scrimmage.
Nevertheless, Butler showed up for his first practice this season with a chip on his shoulder, going after individual players during drills and a scrimmage.
A third-round pick by the Kansas City Chiefs, Hunt set an N.F.L. record last week with 246 yards from scrimmage in his N.F.L. debut.
Hunt, who had 100 or more yards from scrimmage in each of the first four games, is at 659 yards of offense for the season.
He was stopped two yards short of the line of scrimmage and as he went down, Perry Riley of the Raiders stripped the ball away.
"We lost in the one area we've been undefeated this year — the line of scrimmage," Whittingham said after dropping to 11-2 for the season.
Austin Ekeler gained 133 yards from scrimmage and had a touchdown, but also had a costly fumble at the goal line in the third quarter.
Thielen hauled in six catches for 121 yards and the score while Cook finished with 133 yards from scrimmage, 103 of those through the air.
"The offensive line did an incredible job controlling the line of scrimmage today, and that made my job easy," said the 24-year-old Bell.
The field hockey game was ruled an "exhibition" or scrimmage because Division I requires a clear outcome to report an official NCAA Division I contest.
His night got off to an inauspicious start when his first pass attempt, on Clemson's second play from scrimmage, was intercepted by cornerback Gareon Conley.
The strip of sidewalk between a chauffeured limousine and an unhooked velvet rope formed the line of scrimmage between the celebrities and the tabloid press.
On a second-down run, running back Jonathan Stewart was tackled behind the line of scrimmage, and he left the game with a left foot injury.
With Friendly Fire enabled, users can squad up and scrimmage against one another, or simply wander around and learn the nooks and crannies of the map.
Crawford was hurt on the second play from scrimmage in a collision with Buccaneers center Ryan Jensen and was down on the field for several minutes.
The Tigers scored on their second play from scrimmage, bolted to a 21-3 halftime lead and then turned the game over to a stingy defense.
Drill #3, Scrimmage: It was time to put my skills to the test with a mini-game where nothing was off-limits, not even slide-tackling.
Miami got off to a poor start as rookie defensive tackle Christian Wilkins — the team's first-round pick — was ejected after the game's second scrimmage play.
Last season with the Nittany Lions, he accounted for 1,903 yards from scrimmage and 21 touchdowns, and averaged 28.4 yards per kickoff return with two touchdowns.
After Devin balled out on Sunday -- 140 yards from scrimmage and a TD -- teammate Frank Gore brought over Adrian Peterson to give him some postgame love.
There was a team scrimmage that night at a nearby high school, open to the public, so Kiraly wore a U.S.A. shirt tucked into belted pants.
"We go to numerous A.A.U. tournaments, some of the other academically geared camps around the country, scouting out talent," Brown said as he watched players scrimmage.
Much improved after a dismal 223-20 start, Tennessee forced an interception on the game's first play from scrimmage to bring the Neyland Stadium crowd alive.
In BrolyLegs, you have a challenger who's not a mascot, and more than a Make-A-Wish recipient subbed in for one tearful play from scrimmage.
McKinnon contributed a 214-yard touchdown catch and a 21171-yard touchdown run as part of a game in which he had 2149 yards from scrimmage.
Purdy made it 14-6 on the second play from scrimmage after the break, firing a long post pass to Milton for a 73-yard score.
While Ben Roethlisberger's four turnovers kept the Steelers from winning, James Conner did a perfectly respectable Bell impersonation, generating 192 yards from scrimmage and two touchdowns.
He got huge contributions from Williams (210 yards from scrimmage and two touchdowns) and wide receivers Hill (25 receiving yards) and Sammy Watkins (258 receiving yards).
After pump-faking a throw, as Mahomes got to the line of scrimmage, he threw a quick dart pass to Travis Kelce in the end zone.
The Brooklyn broomballers got a glimpse of the game's more competitive side in mid-February, when they faced the New Jersey Saints for a friendly scrimmage.
But if his center of gravity were any lower, he would be underground, and he bursts through the line of scrimmage like the Kool-Aid Man.
Davis was tripped up by a teammate on the second play from scrimmage and helped off the field before heading to the locker room on a cart.
In August 2014, Teiosha was house-sitting for her parents while they attended her brother's intrasquad scrimmage with the United States national team at Nevada-Las Vegas.
Bob Cooney, of the Philadelphia Daily News was first: Simmons suffered the injury this afternoon in the final scrimmage of training camp when he rolled his ankle.
On the first play from scrimmage, Fitzpatrick (27 of 33, 402 yards) connected with DeSean Jackson on a 75-yard touchdown for a quick 23-0 advantage.
It figured in the fourth play from scrimmage, when the Carolina offensive line wedged open the Seattle front and Stewart rolled over Earl Thomas for a touchdown.
As a rookie, he set a team record at the time for the longest run from scrimmage with an 80-yard touchdown at Green Bay on Oct.
The Shenault touchdown play was the longest play from scrimmage since a 94-yard pass was corralled by wide receiver Jeremy Bloom from Robert Hodge in 2002.
On Seattle's next play from scrimmage, DK Metcalf hauled in a screen pass but the ball slipped out of his hands as he started to head upfield.
But the team recently raised a lot of eyebrows with a 98-76 closed-door scrimmage victory over a veteran USC squad that has Final Four aspirations.
Bolles initiates the linebacker right around the line of scrimmage and then proceeds to bullrush him for at least 15 yards, well clear of the actual play.
Carson Palmer and Larry Fitzgerald victimized the Bucs' secondary, and David Johnson and Chris Johnson combined for 197 yards for scrimmage and a touchdown on 31 carries.
Bagley, a forward for the Sacramento Kings, was promoted from the Select Team to the Senior roster on Friday after a scrimmage won by the Select Team.
Ezekiel Elliott scored on a 23-yard run and accounted for 201 yards from scrimmage, rushing 23 times for 83 and catching seven passes for 79 more.
He tied Randy Moss' league record for most 50+ yard touchdowns from scrimmage in a season and had 91 receptions – the most by a rookie running back.
The scrimmage was his first chance to confirm that the surgically repaired cartilage in his left knee was healed and ready for the rigors of a season.
The constant hand combat at the line of scrimmage irritated his shoulder, he said, and hinted at a deeper problem that necessitated a magnetic resonance imaging examination.
Hunt can join Adrian Peterson as the only rookies in NFL history with at least 100 scrimmage yards in each of his team's first five games. 2.
Kamara leads the league in scrimmage yards (777) since Week 7, and his seven touchdowns are tied for the most in the NFL during that span. 2.
McElwain said the Florida defensive wall — nine players lined up across the line of scrimmage with two safeties roaming just behind LSU's tight formation — created the advantage.
Texans linebacker Whitney Mercilus jarred the football loose from Bortles on the third play from scrimmage, with Clowney making the recovery at the Jacksonville 36-yard line.
SIMMONS BREAKS A BONE The No. 1 overall draft pick Ben Simmons broke a bone in his right foot during the Philadelphia 76ers' final training camp scrimmage.
Joe Mixon finished with 187 yards from scrimmage, and Samaje Perine ran for 100 yards and two touchdowns after missing three games with a pulled leg muscle.
It was a marvel of timing that allowed Hamler to outrun the Buckeye safeties for a 163-yard touchdown — Penn State's second-longest play from scrimmage ever.
He's far smaller than Tremaine but he can play near the line of scrimmage and deliver big hits, but is not lost in man-to-man coverage.
With the Steelers stacking the right side of the line of scrimmage, Fournette found a hole on the left side and broke through to the open field.
They ran a unique fast-paced no-huddle offense in which quarterback Jim Kelly read the defense at the line of scrimmage and called the play accordingly.
Their efforts helped offset a huge game by Pittsburgh's offense in which Conner had 95 yards from scrimmage and Smith-Schuster had 10 catches for 189 yards.
Ingram finished with 22 yards from scrimmage, including 21990 on the ground, but his two late fumbles kept the Bears in the game into the final minutes.
This means there's essentially no downtime, guys are just running around all the time, scrambling to the line of scrimmage, and then scrambling during the action play.
The supersize back rumbled over the Patriots to the tune of 204 yards from scrimmage and a touchdown, helping make up for quarterback Ryan Tannehill's no-show.
He returned to start the second half and threw three interceptions, including one on the first play from scrimmage that Rapp returned 35 yards for a score.
Rookie running back Aaron Jones' 212-yard run, during which he was stopped at the line of scrimmage but escaped to his right, was the key play.
He added another 796 yards and 16 touchdowns from scrimmage en route to leading the NCAA in touchdowns responsible for, total yards per play, and total yards.
They can go for a single point with a play from scrimmage at the 2-yard line, or go for 2 points from the 5-yard line.
If Mahomes&apos whole body had crossed the line of scrimmage, the pass would have been illegal, but Mahomes&apos toe-drag kept him behind the line.
Georgia ended the half with a 40-yard throw that was promptly erased because quarterback Jake Fromm had crossed the line of scrimmage before throwing the ball.
Sponsored by GEICO, the VR experience gives viewers access to the field where four puppies scrimmage and "sniffle for field goals" amongst chew toys and assistant coaches.
Joe Mixon had 186 yards from scrimmage (146 rushing, 40 receiving) and a touchdown for Cincinnati (1-12), which is winless on the road in seven games.
He cursed out a front-office executive, antagonized his coach and the team's younger starters, and led a team of reserves to a victory in a scrimmage.
On the next play from scrimmage, however, Cousins' pass to tight end Vernon Davis was complete, but as Davis struggled for additional yardage, the ball popped out.
Gurley had 217,21 yards from scrimmage and 213 touchdowns this season, but as a result of a knee injury he has not carried the ball since Dec.
Lewis, Cooks and Gronkowski all accumulated more than 21,22017 yards from scrimmage in 20043, the first time three Patriots players had accomplished that in the same season.
He led the team in catches (20173), yards from scrimmage (1,169) and all-purpose yardage (1,2619), and was voted onto the All-Pro team as punt returner.
Indeed, Williams—who has long practiced with male hitting partners, the same way many women's college basketball teams scrimmage against men—pretty much agrees with McEnroe's assessment.
Johnson led all N.F.L. players that month with 658 yards from scrimmage, and he was the only player with at least 400 rushing yards and 200 receiving yards.
If the Cowboys play a fair amount of soft coverage and let the Packers throw the ball around at the line of scrimmage, that plays into Adams' game.
We didn't have the capability to boot players from matches, so we had little recourse if a random player joined the server we had planned to scrimmage in.
Expect Buffalo to feature a steady diet of running back LeSean McCoy, who has gone over 100 yards from scrimmage in his last four games against New England.
And so rookie wide receivers come out of college and hit the professional ranks only to find they don't get jammed at the line of scrimmage as often.
" He also compared a presidential election in which one candidate promised to ban Muslims from entering the country and to lock his opponent up to a "intramural scrimmage.
Middle linebacker Joseph, who took over for last year's leading tackler B. J. Goodson, led Clemson with 53 stops, including three behind the line of scrimmage, at Auburn.
Taysom Hill totaled 217 yards from scrimmage and threw for two touchdowns as the New Orleans Saints rallied past the Los Angeles Chargers 23-281 in Carson, Calif.
Running back Lamar Miller scored his first two touchdowns of the season last week, piling up 131 yards from scrimmage, while rookie D'Onta Foreman provides a solid complement.
Martin has scored a rushing touchdown in four of his last five home games and is averaging 102 scrimmage yards in his last five against the Saints. 3.
He skipped through some traffic at the line of scrimmage and out-ran Sun Devils' defenders into the end zone for the third-longest rush in school history.
Gabriel has back-to-back outings of at least 68 scrimmage yards and a touchdown and seems to have wrested the Falcons' third receiver gig from Justin Hardy.
A century of football evolution later, quarterbacks throughout college and the N.F.L. regularly call plays not in the huddle, but as they wait at the line of scrimmage.
Chubb contributed 128 yards from scrimmage and two touchdowns in Cleveland's win over Cincinnati, while Michel had 145 and a score in New England's win over the Jets.
They have each rushed 123 times, and Kamara, with 55 catches, has one more than McCaffrey, whose 1,20043 yards from scrimmage are the seventh-most in the league.
He became the first player to have 100-plus scrimmage yards and two touchdowns in his NFL debut since LaDainian Tomlinson of the San Diego Chargers in 2001.
The cult of Putin is very much about physicality, and there's plenty on display: He suits up for a hockey scrimmage, does strength-training workouts, talks martial arts.
Just one day after the Bryants&apos fatal accident, the Huskies hosted the US Women&aposs National Team for a scrimmage as part of its pre-Olympics tour.
Drake ran for 36 yards on the first play from scrimmage and completed a six-play drive with a 221-yard run for a quick 228-214 lead.
He racked up more than 200 yards from scrimmage in the opener before Tampa Bay kept him under wraps (53 total yards on 18 touches) in Week 2.
To the contrary: On their second play from scrimmage, he surged through a hole, shook a Dallas defender and sprinted down the sideline for a 213-yard gain.
Safeties have been forced to develop hybrid skills: sprinting the length of the field alongside fleet tight ends and charging at the line of scrimmage in run support.
To the contrary: On their second play from scrimmage, he surged through a hole, shook a Dallas defender and sprinted down the sideline for a 59-yard gain.
To the contrary: On their second play from scrimmage, he surged through a hole, shook a Dallas defender and sprinted down the sideline for a 213-yard gain.
Rookie running back Aaron Jones, who was getting his first snaps from scrimmage after Montgomery and primary backup Jamaal Williams were hurt, easily scored on the next play.
Mixon, who has apologized for the assault, finished with two short touchdown runs for Oklahoma (27-23) and gained 180 yards from scrimmage — 91 rushing and 89 receiving.
It demanded a defensive showing that contained the speedster Tyreek Hill, who had only 2753 yards from scrimmage and fizzled as a returner, and thwarted one final comeback.
Dalvin Cook burst up the middle, stepped through a tackle at the line of scrimmage and evaded rookie safety Darnell Savage near midfield for a 75-yard touchdown.
Joe Mixon had 186 yards from scrimmage (43 rushing, 40 receiving) and a touchdown for the Bengals (1-12), who are winless on the road in seven games.
Speaking after a Dallas Cowboys intersquad scrimmage Sunday, owner Jerry Jones said new contracts for quarterback Dak Prescott, running Ezekiel Elliott and wide receiver Amari Cooper will get done.
Roethlisberger went up to the line of scrimmage quickly and appeared to be faking a spike attempt, only to raise up and hit Brown open in the end zone.
"We hadn't played (since Monday), so we tried to scrimmage a little bit and keep our timing as much as possible (at practice Thursday)," Kings coach Dave Joerger said.
O/U: 23 ABOUT THE BILLS (1523-2152): Buffalo's offense runs through LeSean McCoy, who racked up 152 yards from scrimmage in Week 217 - including 110 on the ground.
Ingram finished with 225 yards from scrimmage, including 28 on the ground, but his two late fumbles kept the Bears (248-253) in the game into the final minutes.
Melvin Gordon, who enters Week 9 with a league-leading 10 touchdowns (eight rushing), has gained 276 yards from scrimmage and recorded three scores over his last two contests.
The Bucs came out running Monday night: Rodgers carried it on the game's first six plays from scrimmage and touched it on 11 of Tampa's 13 opening-drive plays.
On the second play from scrimmage, Herbert took advantage of busted coverage from Arizona to connect deep with an all-alone Johnny Johnson III for a 73-yard touchdown.
Coach Nick Saban said only that Sanders would be out "indefinitely," adding Saturday that senior linebacker Joshua McMillon suffered a knee injury in the scrimmage earlier in the day.
SECOND CHANCE ON OFFENSE The new Dolphins Coach Adam Gase, an offensive mastermind, was more than a little disturbed by the ineptitude of his offense in last Saturday's scrimmage.
The Broncos' lost fumble came on the second play from scrimmage, and UNLV cashed in the turnover with Evan Pantels' 245-yard field goal for a 2746-0 lead.
David Johnson continues to carry the offense, as he ranks second in the NFL in rushing (681 yards) and leads the league in scrimmage yards and rushing touchdowns (eight).
Roethlisberger would be wise to lean on former Michigan State star Le'Veon Bell, who has amassed at least 290 yards from scrimmage in three of his last four games.
Bernard, 27, has gained 5,389 yards from scrimmage and scored 27 touchdowns in 83 games since the Bengals picked him in the second round of the 2013 NFL Draft.
I'll admit I don't know all that much about Bibbs; he's mostly been a special teams player and now has ten career touches from scrimmage in the regular season.
Damiere Byrd had two touchdown catches, and Christian McCaffrey had 218 yards from scrimmage, including a 216-yard touchdown reception, as the Panthers won their fourth straight at home.
Or that on the field there were times when he would run to the line of scrimmage, unable to recall what his quarterback had just told him to do.
George missed all but six games last season after breaking his right leg while playing in a scrimmage with the United States national team before the 2014 World Cup.
CHICAGO — Phil Jackson sat courtside and mingled among the Knicks' brain trust on Friday, observing a live scrimmage at the N.B.A. Draft Combine for the first time this week.
Boone bolted out of the blocks with a 59-yard run on the first play from scrimmage before fumbling a pitch from quarterback Sean Mannion on the next play.
At a closed N.H.L. skate, a tuneup scrimmage during the lockout of 219, some two dozen players glided about the rink in the training facility of the Chicago Blackhawks.
The winning drive began after the 49ers failed on a fourth-and-1293 at the Baltimore 35, when Jimmy Garoppolo had a pass deflected at the line of scrimmage.
On the game's second play from scrimmage, Corbin bolted around his right tackle and only needed to break one tackle on his way to a 66-yard touchdown run.
Asked about a lesser workload for Gurley prior to Sunday's afternoon visit from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, McVay told reporters it's a matter of getting more snaps from scrimmage.
"Foos made a beautiful run, escaping a couple of potential tacklers at the line of scrimmage and plowing on after being hit again at the 19953," read one story.
With Norman covering Beckham on nearly every play, the two tangled frequently, especially on running plays when they engaged in hand-to-hand combat at the line of scrimmage.
Boise State's Tyreque Jones picked off O'Brien on the Rams' next play from scrimmage, and the Broncos took the lead 14-7 on Henderson's 5-yard toss to Thomas.
Selected by Pittsburgh with the 214.5th pick of the 22018 draft, Bell had a solid rookie campaign before exploding in 2014 with 2,215 yards from scrimmage and 11 touchdowns.
He looks ready to take off—the defense starts swarming; Smith's left foot touches the line of scrimmage—until at the last moment he backpedals, cocks his arm, and throws.
In 333, the former second-round pick from Northern Iowa racked up 2,118 yards from scrimmage (1,239 rushing, 879 receiving) to go along with 20 touchdowns (16 rushing, four receiving).
No. 18 Baylor 45, Oklahoma State 27 JaMycal Hasty totaled 205 scrimmage yards and two touchdowns as the Bears defeated the Cowboys in a Big 12 game in Stillwater, Okla.
Taylor did most of the work, taking the swing pass near the line of scrimmage and scampering through defenders on the way to the end zone down the left sideline.
They then gave the ball to rookie fullback Andy Janovich, who ran a dive—a traditional short-yardage running play designed to thrust him straight into the line of scrimmage.
Sure, Howard's coaches gushed about his 202 scrimmage yards Monday night against a rugged Vikings defense, and they should: there might not have been a less expected outcome all year.
No one is calling it cheating, but as just one example, it is acknowledged that there is holding by one or more offensive linemen on every single play from scrimmage.
Aggies coach Jimbo Fisher said Cupp sustained the injury in a scrimmage Monday and had the operation the following day, but he declined to give a timetable for his return.
In 1963, George Plimpton braved the ennui and redundancy of professional football's silliest season to train and scrimmage with the Detroit Lions, resulting in the classic sports book Paper Lion.
Kell Walker ran 133 yards to the 10 on the fourth play from scrimmage, and Hopkins dashed in for the touchdown on the next play for a 7-0 lead.
Fans of Frank Gore may want to tune in, however, as the ageless running back needs 74 yards from scrimmage to pass LaDainian Tomlinson for fifth on the career list.
The Patriots had opened the game in the no huddle, sometimes snapping the football so quickly that the Packers linebackers still had their backs turned to the line of scrimmage.
The spread offense forces defenses to cover the entire field as well as each eligible receiver, and it also helps negate size and speed disadvantages at the line of scrimmage.
Hunt had 81 yards on the ground, building on a record-setting debut in which he piled up 246 yards from scrimmage in a season-opening victory in New England.
Special teams set the tone for the Vols as Chandler returned the opening kickoff 58 yards and then scored on a 1003-yard run on the sixth play from scrimmage.
"He's been like the quarterback in the football scrimmage who wears the jersey and no one is allowed to tackle," said David Axelrod, a former top strategist for Mr. Obama.
That was in part because opposing defenses sent more players closer to the line of scrimmage (in the box) to try to stop Elliott, leading to more single coverage downfield.
On the first play from scrimmage, Rodgers hit Valdes-Scantling for a gain of 59, setting up the quarterback's 3-yard touchdown run that extended the lead to 28-10.
Johnson amassed 124 from scrimmage (83 rushing, 215 receiving) versus the Rams, but the workload was decidedly different in last year's season series with San Francisco (22015 carries, 22 yards).
When the Pats begin an offensive play, the Browns decline to approach the line of scrimmage and send a few players into the Patriots' backfield before the snap, clearly offsides.
The final score indicated dominance on both sides of the line of scrimmage, a signature performance for a Crimson Tide team that had been criticized for not having more of them.
With the Giants leading 10-03 and starting at their 22, Barkley ran right, cut back to the left at the line of scrimmage and raced 78 yards for a touchdown.
Bell missed the first three games of the season as punishment for violating the NFL's drug policy, but since returning, he's led the NFL in scrimmage yards per game, with 161.6.
Leake's score came with 11:30 left in the first quarter, and he added a 64-yard scoring jaunt from scrimmage in the second quarter to put Maryland up 21-6.
More than 2,000 fans showed up for the annual preseason scrimmage called the Black and Gold Game, at which players autographed team posters that, given the notoriety, might now be collectible.
With the tackler and the ball-carrier on the ground, players from both the defending and attacking side form an impromptu scrimmage over the ball to vie for possession of it.
Yet the real payoff came in his exposure to a new brand of football: an offense that flummoxed opposing defenses just by hurrying to the line of scrimmage before every play.
In 1954, the Syracuse Nationals tried a 24-second timer at a scrimmage, figuring 60 shots a team made for an enjoyable game and dividing 120 into 48 minutes of play.
With quarterback Carson Palmer wide left, Williams took a shotgun snap and faked an inside handoff to David Johnson before dancing outside and eluding De'Vante Harris at the line of scrimmage.
However, the players at this game are not the usual defenders guarding posts or strikers scoring goals but linebackers and quarterbacks huddled round the line of scrimmage and aiming for touchdowns.
For all of his wobbly throws, Manning never lost his line-of-scrimmage mastery, that ability to check into favorable plays, especially in pressure situations, and the Broncos will miss that.
Griffin, a fifth-year quarterback, completed three long passes to the rookie Corey Coleman in the team's Friday scrimmage, including a deep touchdown toss that impressed the veteran cornerback Tramon Williams.
It limited his ability to wage the kind of hand-to-hand combat that is typical on the line of scrimmage but he was nonetheless a disruptive force in opposing backfields.
Earlier in the second quarter, Bryant fumbled as he was tackled behind the line of scrimmage and cornerback C.J. Coldon recovered the ball and returned it 213 yards for a score.
They got 339 passing yards from Goff and 124 yards from scrimmage from Gurley, but they also had three turnovers, which was too much to handle with the team's defense struggling.
The thrilling touchdown by Ross was set up at the line scrimmage when Alabama's Saivion Smith had tried to jam the wide receiver but immediately hit the turf with an injury.
Harris then took the ball to the right side and very nearly got brought down at the line of scrimmage before stumbling for an 11-yard gain and a first down.
The Rams began the explosive first quarter — which saw the teams combine for 38 points and 428 total yards, 249 by Arkansas — by scoring on the game's first play from scrimmage.
It was 19373, and there were 540 local phone listings for "public relations" and "publicity" — a scrimmage of press agents who took reporters to lunch, hoping to plant items for clients.
McCaffrey has 866 yards from scrimmage in five games this season, and he leads the NFL with 136 total touches while playing more than 98 percent of the Panthers' offensive snaps.
Christian McCaffrey, Running back, Stanford McCaffrey's career at Stanford was nothing short of incredible, with the versatile running back piling up 5,128 yards from scrimmage and 31 touchdowns in 37 games.
But on the Giants' next play from scrimmage, running back Saquon Barkley raced outside and ran away from every Philadelphia defender for a 250-yard score that tied the game again.
But he participated in parts of practice Thursday and took part in a 3-on-3 scrimmage afterward, prompting optimism he might be able to play Saturday against the Memphis Grizzlies.
The tale of Saturday's two playoff games is all about the headline names who will not be taking their Pro Bowl talents to the line of scrimmage in Houston and Seattle.
Dixon didn't blow the doors off the Cleveland Browns last Thursday, but he had similar production to Terrance West (80 scrimmage yards compared to 77 for West) in 11 fewer touches.
The burly LiAngelo, practicing with the intensity of the football player that he once was, jumped up from an interview as the scrimmage wound down and insisted that it continue with him.
Or how every single ex-ballplayer says "The National Football League" or "dominating the line of scrimmage" like they get paid by the syllable and get performance bonuses for the bass level.
The Cincinnati Bengals' star will miss his third straight game since suffering a strained right hamstring on the second play from scrimmage in Week 11 against the Buffalo Bills on Nov. 20.
Broncos cornerback Chris Harris Jr. returned the interception 50 yards for a touchdown on the third play from scrimmage to start Denver's first string on the way to a 10-0 lead.
Obama, 57 and famously smooth with a basketball, told a boys' team and girls' team facing off in a softball scrimmage that his skills at bat were not ready for prime time.
Mosley iced it with 14:15 left when he snared a poor throw by Moore near the line of scrimmage and turned it into his first career interception return for a touchdown.
The Trojans have 19 turnovers in eight games, second-worst among FBS team, and had three last week against Notre Dame, including a fumble by Darnold on the first play from scrimmage.
Because even though I still can't tell you what the hell a line of scrimmage is, I do know one thing for sure: The fountain of youth isn't found at Office Depot.
While it's unclear whether the former football player was also present for the hockey tryouts, Hank attended his son's "first scrimmage" back in November, gushing about what a "proud papa" he was.
Trailing 225-234, the Chiefs were at their 234 with 29 seconds left when the Cowboys used three linemen and a linebacker near the line of scrimmage and dropped everyone else back.
Much of his yardage came in garbage time or on short throws to running back Saquon Barkley (nine grabs, 25 yards), and 22 of his completions were behind the line of scrimmage.
Running back David Johnson (back) did not practice, although he had limited practice time last week before getting 102 yards from scrimmage and two touchdowns, one rushing and one receiving, against Atlanta.
Coleman scored touchdowns on runs of 2, 2 and 6 yards, and Freeman accounted for 207 yards from scrimmage with 152 yards on 14 carries and another 1093 yards on five receptions.
Landry recorded 203 of his NFL-leading 103 catches in the last meeting with Buffalo while running back Kenyan Drake erupted for 113 scrimmage yards and a rushing score in that contest.
Neither back managed 100 yards from scrimmage in the Week 14 loss to the Falcons, and Kamara totaled just 27 yards on four touches before leaving the contest with a concussion. 1.
Much of his yardage came in garbage time or on short throws to running back Saquon Barkley (nine grabs, 99 yards), and 11 of his completions were behind the line of scrimmage.
"I thought we were beat at the line of scrimmage on both offense and defense in the first two-thirds of the first half," San Diego State head coach Rocky Long said.
He has an N.F.L.-leading 193,244 yards from scrimmage through eight games, putting him on pace to finish just 21 yards short of Chris Johnson's N.F.L. record, which was set in 2009.
The dreamy part: Tennessee's Alvin Kamara receives a pass from Joshua Dobbs before the line of scrimmage, and rips a neat little cut behind the defensive line, who are now making chase.
Down by 183-33 with 3:03 left to play, Mahomes waltzed onto the field and on the first play from scrimmage launched a rocket 75 yards to Hill for a touchdown.
Durant, the star forward who has been sidelined since he strained his right calf on May 8, is expected to scrimmage with teammates and coaches at the Warriors' practice facility on Thursday.
But that May, acting on a tip from Mike Elias, now an assistant general manager, they flew him to their Florida complex and used him in a scrimmage at extended spring training.
On Sunday, Elliott was again the centerpiece of the Cowboys offense, racking up 219 yards from scrimmage, running for two touchdowns and getting a third on a 72-yard catch-and run.
The ball caromed far from the line of scrimmage before Ebukam scooped it up and ran untouched into the end zone — the first turnover of Mahomes's career to result in a touchdown.
The rule book's definition — any act more than a yard beyond the line of scrimmage that "significantly hinders" a player's ability to catch the ball — differs from the "clear and obvious" standard.
They struck for touchdowns on their initial three plays from scrimmage after the break, scoring 21 points in the first four and a half minutes despite U.S.C. receiving the second-half kickoff.
Williams caught a first-down pass from Aaron Rodgers at the line of scrimmage and, as he turned in the left flat, was corralled immediately for no gain by linebacker Nigel Bradham.
Instead, some of the Italians, to use football terminology, crossed the line of scrimmage (the "advantage line") and moved into the England backfield, hoping to sow confusion and maybe steal the ball.
Fields's throw on his first play from scrimmage after leaving the game highlighted a performance that, in Ohio State Coach Ryan Day's mind, cemented Fields as one of the country's top performers.
The Chiefs linebackers began sneaking toward the line of scrimmage, and Brady saw them, changing a play in a pre-snap read and throwing over the middle to Edelman for 14 yards.
Starting defensive linemen at least a yard off the line of scrimmage, in theory, gives offensive linemen more time to brace before being hit and to stand upright to avoid helmet hits.
The 193-year-old needs 59 scrimmage yards to join Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith as the only players in NFL history with at least 12-plus consecutive seasons with 1,000 yards.
While his time on the field has been limited somewhat by drug and substance abuse suspensions — along with his full-season holdout — he has 7,996 yards from scrimmage in 14.53 career games.
Martin, a Hall of Fame running back, twice surpassed 1,800 yards from scrimmage in a season for the Jets — the only two times in franchise history that a player has done so.
With Henry deployed essentially as a decoy against a Spartans defense that stacked the line of scrimmage, Coker torched Michigan State for 286 yards passing and two touchdowns in a 38-0 victory.
James Conner continued to shine for Pittsburgh, accounting for 163 yards from scrimmage with a touchdown catch Sunday as the visiting Steelers downed the Baltimore Ravens 29-16 in an AFC North matchup.
The best counter an offense can make is to go no-huddle, making no substitutions and racing to the line of scrimmage after plays in order to prevent Alabama from making its swaps.
If there is one safety deep with both cornerbacks just off the line of scrimmage — this is Cover 3, what Seattle usually shows — expect the quarterback to look first for his tight end.
On the fifth play of his first college scrimmage during his freshman year two-a-days at the University of Tennessee, Kemp slammed into the fullback as a lineman tumbled onto his legs.
After a 72-minute weather delay to start the third quarter, McLaurin had a catch-and-run for a 75-yard TD on the first play from scrimmage to make it 49-14.
In a game three weeks ago, Nihon University linebacker Taisuke Miyagawa crushed Kwansei Gakuin University quarterback Kousei Okuno from behind on the first play from scrimmage several seconds after Okuno threw a pass.
The Tigers, for example, still do some 15-minute periods of live tackling during spring camp, but not on consecutive days, and they have one preseason scrimmage with tackling in the off-season.
An April 2006 team scrimmage started off normally enough for Carolina Panthers star Kurt Coleman, then a 17-year-old college player at Ohio State University, but as the game progressed, tragedy struck.
Barkley, who led the league with 2,208 yards from scrimmage a year ago, missed the last 3 1/2 games after suffering a sprained right ankle in the first half against Tampa Bay.
Unable to remember the plays, the boy was called offsides — crossing the scrimmage line before the ball was snapped — six or seven times in a row in a single game, his father said.
Baylor CB Grayland Arnold, expected to be the team's top cornerback this season, suffered a broken arm in the team's final scrimmage and will miss six to eight weeks after undergoing surgery. 2.
Rookie running back Kareem Hunt has rushed for more than 222 yards three times while amassing 659 yards from scrimmage — the second-highest total by a rookie through four games in league history.
He graduated in 2015, and recalled performing at bowl games, mostly before Rutgers joined the Big Ten, where a decent team is on the other side of the line of scrimmage every week.
Ingram ran for two touchdowns and gained 151 yards from scrimmage, capped by his late 50-yard touchdown run, and host New Orleans overcame three turnovers to defeat the reeling Jets, 31-19.
If a team's offensive line is porous, he said, he focuses on the line of scrimmage, wondering from where the defensive pressure will come, because it's difficult to pay attention to anything else.
Keeping Score He holds the N.F.L. record for most seasons with 212,21 or more yards from scrimmage, he is about to be fourth on the career rushing list and he's not done yet.
While concussions are a concern, the larger danger to an athlete's long-term cognitive health is the repeated sub-concussive blows like the ones that linemen absorb on nearly every play from scrimmage.
Neal started the game on the right note, hitting Vaughn for 2172 yards on the game's third play from scrimmage, ultimately leading to Vaughn's 2116-yard touchdown run to make it 222-0.
The Bearcats answered Houston's 31-yard field goal by scoring on their next play from scrimmage, with Rashad Medaris reeling in Ridder's pass and bolting up the sideline for a 75-yard touchdown.
Mahomes made a brilliant, heads-up play on his fourth touchdown by dragging his toe to keep from crossing the line of scrimmage as he threw to Travis Kelce in the end zone.
Jimmy Garoppolo threw a 63-yard pass to Kittle, who was streaking across the line of scrimmage and Kittle easily stepped away from a diving C.J. Gardner-Johnson, breaking into the open field.
Watson's pinpoint pass came after he had scrambled for 33 yards, the longest run from scrimmage by either team — and 25 yards more than Ohio State's combined rushing total in the first half.
Bill Pennington: The Patriots haven't scored but if the Rams secondary doesn't move closer to the line of scrimmage and tighten up its coverage, it's going to be a long day for them.
He impressed Scheyer and the rest of the Duke coaching staff in his first scrimmage when he took on some of the best Duke had to offer, including Tatum, and never backed down.
Baltimore's designed shot plays were thwarted by pressure — with James closing on the fourth play from scrimmage, Jackson failed to pull the trigger on a potential TD bomb to Michael Crabtree — or disciplined coverage.
Throughout season two, there are constant glimpses of welcome touch in extreme close-up — lovers briefly meeting, or dancers supporting each other, or basketball players pushing off each other as part of a scrimmage.
Vanderbilt 13, No. 22 Missouri 14 Running back Ke'Shawn Vaughn had 176 yards from scrimmage and two touchdowns, and the Commodores held the Tigers to season lows in points and yards in Nashville, Tenn.
And this is only a scrimmage, one portion of a practice where skaters don't just review basic drills but also ram the hell out of each other as they would in a real bout.
But Florida schools already offer girls' flag football as an interscholastic sport, and the girls in Jupiter said the equivalent of a seniors-versus-juniors scrimmage would be boring after 50 years of tackling.
The Tigers jumped out to a 230-228 lead with 33:23 left in the first half behind two Tony Pollard scores: a 22-yard run from scrimmage and a 225-yard kickoff return.
Think about the mystique behind the legendary Dream Team scrimmage, a game that has taken on legendary proportions in the darkness of unknowability, another in the constant stream of maniacal Michael Jordan practice stories.
Before a scrimmage against a top local boys' team last Tuesday — which they won, by the way — these girls sat on folding chairs in a classroom with peeling paint and bare walls, and talked.
Cook tallied 192 yards from scrimmage in the opener against Ole Miss before settling for 92 in a little over two quarters last week, but he amassed 223 total yards in last year's meeting.
This year, he has already shattered franchise rookie rushing records, is vying for a rushing title, and with two weeks to play is third in the N.F.L. in total yards from scrimmage, with 1,809.
Before long, this verbal sparring match becomes a three-way tag-team scrimmage, as Harry meets Harmony, a girl he knew back home in Indiana who has come west to escape some family ugliness.
Players scrimmage other teams, watch Video on Demand footage to evaluate performance, participate in team meetings, sit for biweekly sessions with a team psychologist and work out once a week with a personal trainer.
The strongest part of Peppers's skill set is tackling near the line of scrimmage, which makes him similar to Landon Collins, the safety the Giants allowed to enter free agency a few days ago.
If anything, the overemphasis on San Francisco's running would seem to play into Shanahan's overall strategy of designing plays that all look the same at the line of scrimmage but unfurl in countless ways.
Standing on his 30-yard line, 5 yards behind the line of scrimmage, in a shotgun formation, Mahomes took the snap and started drifting back as the 49ers' defensive line closed in around him.
Mailata has had to learn not just the physical movements but also many dozens of offensive plays, as well as what to do when blocking assignments are suddenly changed at the line of scrimmage.
Mailata has had to learn not just the physical movements but also many dozens of offensive plays, as well as what to do when blocking assignments are suddenly changed at the line of scrimmage.
Running back Austin Ekeler added 213 total yards from scrimmage, including an 243-yard touchdown reception just 1:07 into the third quarter that was the longest scoring pass of Rivers' 16-year career.
Arizona responded as Drake scored on an 80-yard run on the next play from scrimmage to tie the score at 7-7 and spark a run of 20 consecutive points by the visitors.
The key play on the drive came when Keenum ran toward the line of scrimmage, backpedaled and threw a short pass to tight end David Morgan, who broke three tackles for a gain of 250.6.
Green Bay's Ty Montgomery recorded two touchdowns (one rushing, one receiving) and 110 scrimmage yards last week while leading all NFL running backs in offensive snaps through the first two weeks of the season. 2.
Watchig Eli hook sliding seven yards behind the line of scrimmage six times a game during an 215-22004 season will be like watching Harrison Ford pretending to act in that fourth Indiana Jones movie.
He even ran for a touchdown, a clear indication it's the postseason, as Brady seldom ventures beyond the line of scrimmage in the regular season unless there's a five-alarm fire in the backfield. 4.
The Jaguars scored their first touchdown when Yeldon was wide open, caught a screen pass a few yards from scrimmage and raced untouched into the right side of the end zone with 1:47 left.
Washington, which ranks eighth nationally in scoring defense (12.8), racked up eight sacks and held Stanford star Christian McCaffrey to 79 yards from scrimmage (49 rushing, 30 receiving) in the beatdown of the Cardinal. 3.
At the same time, in the late 1970s, the NFL implemented the Mel Blount Rule, which confined press coverage to within five yards of the line of scrimmage, thereby making it easier to throw downfield.
Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson had a memorable, if more lighthearted, exchange in Monte Carlo before the 24 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, after Johnson complained about a foul call during a Dream Team scrimmage.
Christian McCaffrey had two touchdowns and electrifying rookie wide receiver D.J. Moore turned in his best game as a pro with 129 yards from scrimmage as the Panthers won their ninth straight game at home.
The officials had another big blunder when Mahomes had scrambled about one-and-a-half yards past the line of scrimmage before throwing to Kelce for a 29-yard catch early in the second half.
Oklahoma State's defense held McNeese to 2318 total yards in the first quarter, while senior cornerback A.J. Green returned an interception 73 yards for a 27-26 lead on the game's second play from scrimmage.
Jared Goff saw him streaking down the middle of the field to take advantage of a safety's having cheated toward the line of scrimmage and hit him for a sensational 53-yard catch-and-run.
There is little doubt that the New England coaches, in their game preparation, had noticed New Orleans lining up in the tight formation along the line of scrimmage and knew how to exploit the situation.
If nothing else, it's fascinating to hear an '80s interpretation of a '30s musical idiom in Chris Walker's orchestrations; the strings and the winds often seem to be on opposite teams in a frisky scrimmage.
But he also developed a lasting connection with Coach Nagata at a transformative moment in Eunice and across the South, when the line of scrimmage became a front line of a profound new social order.
Giants 24, Redskins 3 Wayne Gallman isn't going to make anyone forget Saquon Barkley, but the Giants' fill-in at running back did just fine against Washington, with 118 yards from scrimmage and two touchdowns.
He took the entire country by storm in his first and only season in Alabama, throwing for 30 touchdowns and more than 2,800 yards while tacking on another 21 touchdowns and 1,515 yards from scrimmage.
Kylin Hill, the Southeastern Conference's leading rusher with 25,313 yards in the regular season, was injured on the first play from scrimmage and had just 231 yards on seven carries in his final college game.
On fourth-and-goal at the 1, Denver running back Phillip Lindsay broke a tackle at the line of scrimmage and used all of his 190 pounds to fight his way into the end zone.
On fourth-and-goal at the 1, Denver running back Phillip Lindsay broke a tackle at the line of scrimmage and used all of his 190 pounds to fight his way into the end zone.
As a season of awakening and rebirth, spring has made our favorite shops come alive with optimistic separates in lightweight fabrications and fun-loving accessories, and we're gearing up for an epic warm-weather shopping scrimmage.
While Rodgers feels the Packers are "close" to righting the ship, the Bears are sinking despite rookie running back Jordan Howard rolling up 210 yards from scrimmage and two touchdowns in his first three career starts.
On the first play from scrimmage after the Texans took a 20-13 lead early in the fourth quarter, Raiders fullback Jamize Olawale wasn't accounted for during a 75-yard touchdown catch out of the backfield.
Running back Patrick Laird also is coming off one of the bestoutings of his career with 172 total yards and two TDs and ranks seventh in theconference with his average of 33 scrimmage yards per contest.
On Sunday, the die was cast early, and early plays from scrimmage for both the Panthers and the Seahawks offered a preview of how both teams would fare in the latest installment of their burgeoning rivalry.
Quarterback Jameis Winston was tackled at the 5-yard line as time expired, past the line of scrimmage where he couldn't throw a pass, but too late to run to the end zone for a score.
Rivers found Tyrell Williams for a 75-yard touchdown on the Chargers' first play from scrimmage and fired a 55-yard TD to a wide-open Mike Williams on the third play of the second half.
On Denver's third play from scrimmage, Lynch connected with Taylor down the right sideline and, after Arizona corner Cariel Brooks missed the tackle, Taylor ran his way down the field untouched for a 57-yard touchdown.
Chubb ran for 18 yards on the first play from scrimmage and ended the series with a 33-yard score to give the Bulldogs (4-2, 2-2 Southeastern Conference) a lead they would not surrender.
Running back Artavis Pierce slashed the Ohio State secondary for touchdowns of 80 and 78 yards on two of the Beavers' first three plays from scrimmage in the second half, after an 82-minute weather delay.
A load-sharing strategy between Mark Ingram and Alvin Kamara has the team on a pace for nearly 2,300 rushing yards and the two players in line to combine for more than 3,63 yards from scrimmage.
It was understandable for New England to lose track of Smith as it struggled to contend with Kareem Hunt, a third-round pick who set an N.F.L. record with 246 yards from scrimmage in his debut.
Feaster converted a third-and-24 on a draw play for a 21-yard rushing score, but Florida tied the score at 5 on the next play from scrimmage on a 75-yard run by Pierce.
The diminutive 22015-foot-6, 181-pounder out of North Carolina A&T racked up 113 yards from scrimmage (66 rushing, 47 receiving) and notched his first career touchdown on a 19-yard pass from Glennon.
It was only a scrimmage, but the team's 2009 defeat of Blinn College in Texas, which featured Cam Newton at quarterback, is still recalled here with the fervor of the Catch and other great N.F.L. plays.
They broke that promise at the last moment, and a jostling scrimmage of reporters and camera crews was confined to a dais at the back of the hall where it became a handy target for derision.
Against the Broncos last week, Lewis had more carries than Blount, played six more snaps, racked up 73 more scrimmage yards, and was cheated out of a goal-line touchdown by the Patriots failing to challenge.
In this particular scene, the main characters, played by Jonah Hill and Michael Cera, are standing in the middle of a soccer scrimmage dissecting whether or not Mr. Hill's romantic interest wants to hook up with him.
THE TAKEAWAY Colorado was unable to spring holes for Lindsay on offense and was overpowered at the line of scrimmage on defense in the second half to make its climb to become bowl eligible a little steeper.
The Jets tied the game on the very next play from scrimmage, as Powell hurdled a defender, fell down without being touched and then got up and ran an additional 67 yards for a 75-yard touchdown.
EditorsNote: A couple of minor tweaks JaMycal Hasty totaled 23 scrimmage yards and two touchdowns as No. 18 Baylor recorded a 45-27 victory over Oklahoma State on Saturday in a Big 12 game in Stillwater, Okla.
Ole Miss took the opening kickoff and on the first play from scrimmage, Rebels quarterback Jordan Ta'amu connected with D.K. Metcalf for a 17-yard touchdown and a 1336-0 lead just 11 seconds into the game.
This emphasis on the game's many vehicles — planes, tanks, horses — teaches the fundamentals of the multiplayer mode, where teams scrimmage in yawning valleys, mountains, villages, and castles with military craft zipping overheard or careening through the streets.
But in a game marred by a multi-hour weather delay, the Spartans mostly bottled up Saquon Barkley (96 total yards from scrimmage) and, like Barrett one week earlier, unmasked the Penn State secondary as a liability.
The only season Vogel in which did not lead Indiana to the playoffs was last year, when the star forward Paul George missed most of the season after breaking his leg in a scrimmage with USA Basketball.
It looked like it was going to be a long day for Buffalo when New England started the game rattling off a 90 yard play to the Bills one-yard line on the first play from scrimmage.
"(Olynyk) went through the whole practice and we did quite a bit of up and down, quite a bit of scrimmage, quite a bit of live action," Celtics coach Brad Stevens told reporters after practice on Sunday.
The Minnesota Vikings superstar -- who's in the middle of a crazy year with nearly 1,500 yards from scrimmage and 11 TDs -- hit up Luxe Jewelers in Atlanta to have a piece done to commemorate his awesome 2019.
Ingram was named the NFC's Offensive Player of the Week after rumbling for 227 yards on just 11 carries in last week's win and is over 1,000 yards from scrimmage on the season (806 rushing, 213 receiving).
On either side of scrimmage, before each snap, this collection of honored football players in Hawaii shone with the dull shimmer of so many sedans lined up in a used-car lot in the glare of June.
That became minus-11 on their second play from scrimmage as tight end Larry Donnell coughed up the ball at the Giants' 210, leading to the Rams' lone touchdown, on a 236-yard catch by Tavon Austin.
Still, Clippard, the guileful, spectacled reliever, had a hard time believing where he was on Tuesday morning — taking the mound for a team of unemployed free agents in a scrimmage against an industrial-league team from Japan.
Joe Theismann, the former Washington quarterback who won the N.F.L.'s Most Valuable Player Award in 1983, recalled a time when he thought he had spotted a foul by a defensive player at the line of scrimmage.
Todd Gurley II, who led the N.F.L. in yards from scrimmage, averaged 7.2 yards a carry on his way to 101 rushing yards, and receivers Robert Woods and Cooper Kupp had their share of highlight-reel plays.
Ben Roethlisberger threw for 224 yards and two touchdowns, Le'Veon Bell had 192 yards from scrimmage, and Antonio Brown had 65 receiving yards and a touchdown, with the stars leading an effort that produced 420 total yards.
Minnesota running back Dalvin Cook accounted for 218 yards from scrimmage — 132 rushing, on 6.3 per carry — and quarterback Kirk Cousins threw for 306 yards and two touchdowns, both to Adam Thielen, with five incompletions all afternoon.
Vikings 28, Giants 10 If not for Carolina's Christian McCaffrey, Dalvin Cook might be the talk of the N.F.L.: Minnesota's running back had 218 yards from scrimmage on Sunday, and is up to 742 for the season.
After a Jimmy Garoppolo pass was batted down at the line of scrimmage by Chris Jones, the Chiefs put pressure on him again, forcing the San Francisco quarterback to simply throw the ball away on third down.
And when Smith was strip-sacked by Khalil Mack on the next play from scrimmage, the Raiders again had to try a field goal — only this time, the holder, Marquette King, could not get the snap down.
The tone of the opening drive was set on the first New England play from scrimmage, when Michel sliced through a gaping hole in the middle of the Kansas City front line for an 11-yard gain.
The N.F.L. is now a pass-happy league, so it is common for a host of players on both sides of the line of scrimmage to have to dash downfield for 50 yards on several successive plays.
"There would be times I would come to the line of scrimmage and I would wink and smile at a defensive back and let him know that I'm getting ready to come right at you," Ware says.
Denver Nuggets rookie forward Michael Porter Jr. sprained his left knee in a minicamp scrimmage Wednesday night and is not likely to play for the team in summer league action at Las Vegas, according to the Denver Post.
Buffalo&aposs pursuit of AFC East kingpin New England was stymied by the New York Jets, who controlled the line of scrimmage on both sides in a 34-21 win that never was close in the second half.
Bentley regained South Carolina's lead when he leaped high over the line of scrimmage on a sneak at 4:21 for his second TD. He scored the game-winner in a late rally at Ole Miss last Saturday.
But let's say that after Cole broke through the line of scrimmage and was into the secondary, the L.A. Stallions quarterback went all John Wick on the Cleveland defensive line and started double tapping them in the skull.
Denver Nuggets rookie forward Michael Porter Jr. sprained his left knee in a minicamp scrimmage Wednesday evening and is not likely to play for the team in summer league action at Las Vegas, according to the Denver Post.
Shakir lined up as the quarterback in the wildcat formation and sent an underhanded forward flip to Collingham behind the line of scrimmage, and the tight end scored on a 2-yard play to make it 42-3.
Dominating both sides of the scrimmage line Saturday in front of the largest crowd to watch a game at Papa John's Cardinal Stadium, the Cardinals administered a 63-20 Atlantic Coast Conference whipping to No. 2 Florida State.
McCaffrey is leading the NFL in rushing yards, touchdowns, and yards from scrimmage in his third season, and he&aposs the first player in league history to have 1,000 yards rushing and 0003 yards receiving through 10 games.
The Dolphins, who had lost two starting defensive linemen due to injury, got Seattle into a fourth-and-four situation with 2:08 remaining after star Ndamukong Suh batted down a Wilson pass at the line of scrimmage.
After the Eagles took a lead late in the first quarter when Burt caught a TD, Dungey found Riley wide open on the next play from scrimmage for an easy 75-yard score to tie it 763-7.
Moss shook off cornerback Corey Webster so hard at the line of scrimmage that Webster fell, and after that, Moss gained easy entry into the end zone to put New England ahead, 163-10, with 2:42 left.
Bell, who rushed for 60 yards and had six catches for 83 more, became the fastest player in NFL history to reach 8,000 yards from scrimmage following a 5-yard gain on his first carry of the contest.
The Bears and Patriots were particularly effective, using 6-20183 fronts — six men on the line of scrimmage, one off-ball linebacker — to disrupt L.A.'s zone running game, and Cover-4 to squelch deep play-action designs.
The challenge for the big-time programs, then, is to find a way to counter the disruption of the spread while also bringing the focal point of the game back to what happens at the line of scrimmage.
Drake's 69-yard touchdown gave Miami a 34-33 victory and was the longest play from scrimmage to win a game with no time remaining in the fourth quarter since the N.F.L.-American Football League merger in 1970.
Kamara and Ingram powered the Saints like no previous running back tandem had, becoming the first in league history to each gain at least 1,500 yards from scrimmage, and New Orleans led the N.F.L. with 23 rushing touchdowns.
Except, as referee Craig Wrolstad soon clarified — echoing a loud voice that must have been ringing in his head — there could be no penalty because the defender had been blocked within one yard of the line of scrimmage.
Instead, the Utes looked like they did not even belong on the same field as the Ducks, getting beaten up and down both lines of scrimmage in a 37-2083 loss in the Pac-12 Conference championship game.
For the broadcaster John Madden, the device was transformative, greatly enhancing his ability to describe what the 22 men on the football field were doing, especially the linemen battling at the line of scrimmage during a running play.
After the Eagles took a 3-0 lead with 1:23 left in the first quarter, Haskins connected with Terry McLaurin on a 2017-yard touchdown on the next play from scrimmage for a 7-3 Washington advantage.
After N.C. State's Ryan Finley threw an interception to Louisville's Trumaine Washington on the Wolfpack's first play from scrimmage, the Cardinals pushed the lead to 10-0 five plays later on a 183-yard field goal by Blanton Creque.
Freshman running back Brittain Brown's 1-yard run on the first play of the fourth quarter brought the Blue Devils within 21-16, but Jones was stuffed at the line of scrimmage on the ensuing two-point conversion attempt.
On the first play from scrimmage after the Texans (6-4) took a 20-13 lead early in the fourth quarter, Raiders fullback Jamize Olawale was not accounted for during a 153-yard touchdown catch out of the backfield.
"If tracking data shows an edge rusher is quicker off the line of scrimmage than anyone else, teams will reverse-engineer his combine stats to find out how they could scout for that skill," writes The Ringer's Kevin Clark.
Wolford paces Wake Forest in rout of Boston College John Wolford threw for one touchdown, ran for another and totaled 243 yards from scrimmage, leading visiting Wake Forest to a 34-22 blowout victory over Boston College on Saturday.
Oakland also is coming off a late comeback victory as it rallied to edge Kansas City 33-23 after Derek Carr drilled a 231-yard TD pass to Michael Crabtree on the final play of the game from scrimmage.
That's what happened on Gordon's first big play, a 43-yard run to open the second quarter: Watch 55 (Sean Spence) cheat towards the line of scrimmage at the beginning of that play and come right at the center.
While you shouldn't completely change your research based on one performance in a glorified scrimmage, the preseason can provide hints as to which players might be worth reaching a round or two early for and which should be avoided.
Included in that discussion is Seattle counterpart Russell Wilson, who is third in the league in passing touchdowns (2100), tied for fourth in passing yards per game (21) and responsible for nearly 220 percent of his team's scrimmage yards.
With opposing pass rushes neutralized by 1,600 pounds of shove-back, the Cowboys' offense plays a glorified seven-on-seven practice drill — and the offense always wins when the other guys cannot touch anyone south of the scrimmage line.
On the Colts' second play from scrimmage, Luck's pass bounced off the intended receiver, Marlon Mack, and right to cornerback Morris Claiborne, who returned it 17 yards for a touchdown for the team's second pick-six of the season.
His determined burst across the line of scrimmage thrust him into the Jets' defensive backfield with too much speed and vigor for anyone to catch him — a fitting finish to one of his better days in a memorable season.
The room had the feel of a sporting event, and it was — a group of competitive video gamers on the Bay Shore High School e-sports team were competing in a scrimmage and playing their way toward college scholarships.
The standout wide receivers, Ja'Marr Chase and Justin Jefferson, each logged more than 3003,400 yards, and the offensive line emerged as a strength after starting the season confronting questions over how well it could control the line of scrimmage.
Two plays after the reversal, on 3rd-and-goal from the New England 7-yard line with 9 seconds left, Roethlisberger went to the line of scrimmage having communicated that he would spike the ball to stop the clock.
"We all know he is very explosive from the line of scrimmage and also when he gets the ball in his hands," Pryor said of the rookie, who had 104 yards and two touchdowns in his last game in Week 2.
O/U: 433 ABOUT THE CHIEFS (100.5-224): Kansas City's offense has been unspectacular, but Smith takes care of the ball and running back Spencer Ware has emerged as a major weapon, ranking third in the NFL in scrimmage yards.
Conner has 922 yards from scrimmage — 16 shy of the franchise record through seven games held by holdout Le'Veon Bell — this season and is the first player in franchise history with 102 yards rushing and two touchdowns in three consecutive games.
Curry, who missed the last two games in the Western Conference first-round series after spraining his right ankle in the opener, experienced no pain after taking part in a five-on-five scrimmage during practice at Toyota Center in Houston.
The teams in this weekend's N.F.L. playoffs rank among the most efficient practitioners of the increasingly common line-of-scrimmage passing game, in which offenses deploy teammates on what are called rub routes, or pick plays, to spring open targets.
By contrast, Alabama and Michigan State stepped onto the Dallas Cowboys' home field still favoring, almost stubbornly, pro-style offenses that seek to control possession by establishing the run, converting third downs and dominating the line of scrimmage on defense.
But there&aposs really kind of an emphasis on being the complete player because there&aposs not a whole lot of tight ends that can run routes the way he runs and be productive blocking at the line of scrimmage.
A tone was set at the first practice, when Coach Lindy Ruff did not allow his team to scrimmage, instead demanding a focus on drills and techniques to lower the Stars' goals-allowed average from 234 per game the previous season.
After the West-leading Warhawks (3-4, 2-1) drove 82 yards for a touchdown on their opening possession, running back Darrynton Evans tied the score at 7 with a 59-yard run on the Mountaineers' third offensive play from scrimmage.
Paul says he first got word on Saturday that the Biebs was looking for a pickup hockey game before he left town ... so he set up Monday's session, where Justin scored a few goals during scrimmage ... and more in a shootout.
On fourth-and-1 at the Baltimore 38 late in the third quarter, Hill burst through the line then dove into the end zone to complete his longest run from scrimmage this season and put the Bengals ahead 21-9.
O/U: 2150 ABOUT THE RAMS (21-210): Todd Gurley leads the league with 22,210 yards from scrimmage and ranks fourth in rushing with 23 but has been held under 503 on the ground in each of his last two games.
O/U: 210.5 ABOUT THE CHIEFS (23-143): Kansas City's offense has clicked thanks to the flawless play of quarterback Alex Smith and the emergence of rookie Kareem Hunt, who leads the NFL in rushing yards (214) and scrimmage yards (230,224).
Still, expect LeSean McCoy to receive the bulk of the touches as the veteran back is ninth in the NFL in yards from scrimmage, rushing for 3 yards and adding 48 receptions for another 304 yards on the season. 1.
Manning, who became the face of the NFL as a glamour quarterback and ubiquitous TV pitchman, has been hailed for his meticulous preparation and ability to find holes in opposing defenses as he surveys them at the line of scrimmage.
Ertz caught a short pass near midfield and ran down the left sideline, eluding two defenders to get across the goal line, but a Philadelphia receiver had lined up a step behind the line of scrimmage to warrant the costly flag.
Gordon had a field day as well on Sunday en route to earning AFC Offensive Player of the Week honors with 261 yards from scrimmage (career-best 196 rushing, 153 receiving) in San Diego's 43-35 shootout win over Tennessee.
Elway, who retired after leading Denver to back-to-back Super Bowl championships, said he marveled at the way Manning would go to the line of scrimmage and read defenses rather than do the reading as he dropped back to pass.
They're about the same size and were both Pac-12 monsters: Years Scrimmage Yards TDs Reggie Bush 3 4,13 38 Christian McCaffrey 3 5,128 31 Nobody has yet accused McCaffrey of nearly destroying his collegiate program yet, but give him time.
"One minute you're sitting at the 50-yard line, the next minute you may decide to go stand in the end zone or on the line of scrimmage," said DJ Roller, co-founder of NextVR, which hosted the VR event.
No two Giants had been more maligned than Manning and Beckham for the three-game losing streak the team took into Sunday, and as the two waited at the line of scrimmage, they watched as the Ravens' defenders continued to realign.
The Crimson Tide (2-213) scored a pair of long plays — a 75-yard run by wide receiver Henry Ruggs III on their first play from scrimmage and freshman running back Keilan Robinson's 74-yard dash in the third quarter.
During a scrimmage against his teammates he (clearly) fouled fellow Canadian wunderkind TJ Barrett, then stiffened up, bounced off the ground with four straight limbs like a cartoon, and came excruciatingly close to yelling at the assistant who was reffing.
Some of his running lanes at LSU were wide enough to drive latter-day Trent Richardson through, and I've spoken with experts who believe we haven't seen Fournette make enough mid-run direction-change decisions near the line of scrimmage.
"If I came in there and it's just quiet – it's like a glorified scrimmage – I'm not trying to do that," Wagner said, adding the "response to the virus" has caused him to use the "fist-bump" when interacting with fans.
He was even hammered when he was not behind the line of scrimmage — on a hit by linebacker Jaylon Smith on a 1-yard gain before the Giants' first points on Aldrick Rosas' field goal late in the third quarter.
He likewise has the license, according to Gentry, to "Omaha" play calls from the bench — referring to the former N.F.L. quarterback Peyton Manning's famed penchant for shouting "Omaha" at the line of scrimmage whenever he wanted to change a play.
Instead of taking a knee — as they obviously should have — quarterback Joe Theismann tried to connect with a receiver near the line of scrimmage, but Raiders linebacker Jack Squirek snagged the ball out of the air for the pick-six.
O/U: 1523 ABOUT THE EAGLES (2152-224): Veteran Darren Sproles amassed 221 yards from scrimmage (86 rushing, 17 receiving) last week with fellow running back Ryan Mathews seeing his carries dwindle after a costly fumble in the previous contest.
Jay Ajayi rushed for 224 yards and a touchdown in that contest, but Kenyan Drake has assumed the lead back duties and rolled up a career-high 220 yards from scrimmage in Miami's 217-20 victory over the Patriots on Monday.
New York could also look to exploit Indianapolis' 23rd-ranked run defense (116.3 yards per game) with veteran Matt Forte, who has amassed 508 yards from scrimmage and five touchdowns (four rushing, one receiving) in the past five contests. 1.
Oakland cut Kansas City's lead to 063-24 left to play on a 26-yard field goal by Tavecchio, who had missed from 45 yards and had a 217-yarder deflected at the line of scrimmage in the second quarter.
After the West-leading Warhawks (3-4, 2-1) drove 82 yards for a touchdown on their opening possession, running back Darrynton Evans tied the score at 113 with a 59-yard run on the Mountaineers' third offensive play from scrimmage.
It requires size, complicated footwork, a high degree of intelligence and, usually, the acquired wisdom — gained over years of high school and college competition — needed to win the battles against defensive players who come charging across the line of scrimmage.
It requires size, complicated footwork, a high degree of intelligence and, usually, the acquired wisdom — gained over years of high school and college competition — needed to win the battles against defensive players who come charging across the line of scrimmage.
Corey Davis became the career Football Bowl Subdivision leader in yards receiving, and the Broncos (1183-0, 8-0) never trailed, scoring a defensive touchdown on the first play from scrimmage and breaking the game open in the third quarter.
Chargers 45, Jaguars 10 Philip Rivers threw for 314 yards and three touchdowns, while running back Austin Ekeler accounted for more than 200 yards from scrimmage as Los Angeles ended its three-game losing streak with a win in Jacksonville.
In the scrum (never "scrimmage," which is not a rugby word) each player binds on to another and all work together to achieve their goal: to push the opposing pack off the ball, to subdue them — and to not get hurt.
Huddles remain the pervasive norm, but increasingly, many are condensed to several harried seconds, as quarterbacks bolt to the line of scrimmage and rely on hand signals and code words to communicate a new play to teammates as they line up.
QB Cam Newton didn't take part in the scrimmage situations during the first day of joint workouts with the Tennessee Titans, but he was involved in some 7-and-7 drills when the teams gathered for the second of those workouts Thursday.
The Titans won the scrimmage line for most of the first half, taking a 3-0 lead on Ryan Succop's 28-yard field goal with 4:173 left in the first quarter and stretching it to 10 with a tremendous effort by Murray.
ABOUT THE RAMS (9-3): Todd Gurley leads the NFC with 1,502 scrimmage yards and is tied for first with 2 total touchdowns headed into a tilt versus a stingy Philadelphia rush defense that surrendered an NFL-best 68.1 yards per game.
Drafted by the Chicago Bears in the second round in 268, he amassed a league-leading 22008,1963 yards from scrimmage over eight seasons — 2196,268 rushing, 225,116 receiving — and established himself as the second-most-prolific running back in franchise history, after Walter Payton.
FLORIDA 24, GEORGIA 1383 Jordan Scarlett scored for the sixth consecutive game, and Florida's defense controlled the line of scrimmage as No. 14 Florida (6-1, 4-1 SEC) held visiting Georgia (4-4, 2-4) to a season-low 23 yards.
A summer retreat, at a camp in West Texas that was out of cellphone range, helped the players bond, and a closed-door scrimmage with Houston and a strong December showing against Duke at Madison Square Garden forged their belief in themselves.
I kind of wish I'd stuck with that opinion, but when CJA mustered big numbers in the 2016 season's first couple games (232 scrimmage yards, three touchdowns) and looked impressive doing it, I said "mea culpa" and decided to believe in him.
Gore has never held the distinction of being the game's best active running back, but last year he passed Jerry Rice for the N.F.L. record with 12 seasons of 1,200 or more yards from scrimmage — all of which have come in a row.
But in addition to spotlighting films and performances that may have flown under the radar over the past year, the Gothams are also the unofficial kickoff to awards season, the scrimmage to the Oscars in March, when prognosticators start laying their bets.
PISCATAWAY, N.J. — When Isaih Pacheco, a sophomore running back at Rutgers, burst past the line of scrimmage, slipped an Ohio State linebacker's grasp and raced to the end zone for a 22017-yard touchdown, it set off a New Year's Eve-like celebration.
The Ravens' final drive covered 34 yards in 12 plays, killing the final 6:28, and began after the 49ers failed on a fourth-and-1 at the Baltimore 213 when Jimmy Garoppolo had a pass deflected at the line of scrimmage.
Rountree scored on the fifth play from scrimmage in the third when he broke through the left side on a 41-yard scamper for his sixth rushing TD, but McCann clanked the ensuing attempt off the right upright to leave it 403-7.
Rams 63, Cardinals 26 Jared Goff threw for 28 yards, Todd Gurley had 8 yards from scrimmage, Robert Woods had 172 receiving yards, Cooper Kupp and Brandin Cooks both contributed and the Los Angeles defense got a pick-6 from Taylor Rapp.
What to watch for Todd Gurley's usage After tallying 1,831 yards from scrimmage and 21 total touchdowns during the 13 NFL regular season, Gurley normally would have entered this season as the clear-cut favorite to be the No. 1 overall pick.
You can answer to Child Protective Services for letting your children walk alone in your neighborhood, but not for dropping them off at a boxing gym, or enrolling them in a MMA clinic, or allowing them to bash helmets on the line of scrimmage.
She hadn't been much aware of the controversy over the jackets while in college, she told me, but she certainly witnessed how her team had to schedule practices around the times men wanted the gym and how the women couldn't scrimmage in Crisler Arena.
Rookie running back Alvin Kamara and Mark Ingram II combined for 248 yards from scrimmage and three rushing touchdowns Sunday to power the Saints to a 31-21 victory over the Carolina Panthers and into sole possession of first place in the NFC South.
Front Row When the monthlong marathon of men's fashion shows kicks off this week, so will the scrimmage to cover it: the race by newspapers, magazines, television networks, social media platforms and blogs to get a piece of the action for themselves and their viewers.
Taylor became the fourth player in FBS history to rush for 5,143 yards before his senior season, joining Heisman Trophy winners Herschel Walker and Ron Dayne, as well as LaMichael James, with a 16-yard run over left guard on the first play from scrimmage.
Wisconsin changed the momentum in the second quarter, and it began with an interception at the line of scrimmage by Van Ginkel, a 26-224 outside linebacker who jumped up on the right side and picked off a Rosier pass at the Miami 24.
He scooped up the ball and rolled to his right about 20 yards behind the line of scrimmage and found wide open receiver Tyler Lockett in the middle of the field for a gain of 35 yards down to the Vikings' four-yard line.
Anderson split carries with veteran Jamaal Charles, who made his preseason debut with the Broncos and picked up 241 yards from scrimmage — 221 yards on four carries and 15 yards on two receptions that set up Brandon McManus' game-tying field goal just before halftime.
Devonta Freeman more than picked up the slack with a rushing and receiving touchdown last week and has 41-plus scrimmage yards in two of his last three contests, although he was limited to just 20 yards on 11 carries in the season-opening loss.
McCaffrey, who entered the game leading the NFL in rushing yards per game, scrimmage yards, rushing touchdowns and total touchdowns, rushed 214 times for 14 yards and had six catches for 224 yards, but he never hurt the Packers with a game-changing play.
He caught a screen pass and took it 50 yards to the end zone on only the fifth play from scrimmage for the Steelers, and that was just the start on a day Roethlisberger needed to throw only 18 passes — completing 13 for 230 yards.
In the three practices where I watched Barrett, I never saw him drive to the rim, in a drill or a scrimmage or or game, without taking the opportunity to practice some fussy body-twist, hand approach, or rotation to create space at the rim.
That continuity allows the Rams to make dummy calls at the line of scrimmage, drawing defenders offside or, as the NFL Network analyst Shaun O'Hara speculated, fooling them into expected the inverse of an actual call, like a run instead of a play-action pass.
On second-and-7.33 from the Baltimore 27.3-yard line, he faked a handoff, eluded one Texan behind the line of scrimmage, shed four tackles, darted into open space and then careened into another defender, punctuating a 225-yard scamper with power and urgency.
The premise is that the braces are needed to protect the vulnerable joints of linemen, who are often hit on the side or the back of a knee by other players who are falling in the so-called trenches, near the line of scrimmage.
He needs one more game with 1003 or more yards from scrimmage for 2100 straight, to break Barry Sanders's record of 210, and needs 222 receiving yards to become the third player to have 1,000 yards rushing and 1,000 receiving in the same season.
O/U: 42.5 ABOUT THE CARDINALS (1-3): David Johnson (64 carries, 300 yards, three TDs) leads the NFL with 33 yards from scrimmage and has recorded 100 or more total yards in all four contests this season and eight of his last nine games.
Chased by two defenders, Rodgers, off his back foot, side-armed a pass from 14 yards behind the line of scrimmage that zipped just over the hands of Jimmy Graham and into those of Jamaal Williams, streaking toward the back corner of the end zone.
Browns defensive end Myles Garrett, the first overall pick in the 2017 draft, made two run stops in the first quarter — one when he tackled Daniel Lasco for a 2-yard loss and one when he stopped rookie Alvin Kamara at the line of scrimmage.
After a pass interference penalty against Clemson on third down, running back James Conner bounced out of a cluster at the line of scrimmage and dashed 33.83 yards for a touchdown to pull the Panthers within 3.8-21.0, setting up the late-game heroics.
On Tuesday, as Derrick Rose cycled on a stationary bike and Carmelo Anthony practiced jump shots and pick-and-pops with the assistant coach Howard Eisley on one court, the rest of the Knicks finished practice with a full-court scrimmage on another court.
" Asked what gave him confidence in Curry's fitness after a two-game absence, Kerr replied: "The fact that he has no pain and the fact that he went through the three-on-three yesterday and the full-court scrimmage today and had no pain, no limping.
This ability figured in the first play from scrimmage in Sunday's game, when Panthers fullback Mike Tolbert, a human with the proportions and bruising potential of a medicine ball, shoved back a Seahawks linebacker and let tailback Jonathan Stewart scamper over 59 yards of soggy, divoted grass.
ABOUT THE CHIEFS (1-0): Kansas City flashed an explosive offense in Week 1, as rookie running back Kareem Hunt racked up 246 yards from scrimmage – the most by any NFL player in his debut – and Tyreek Hill caught seven passes for 133 yards and a touchdown.
EditorsNote: update: adds score in lede Vanderbilt running back Ke'Shawn Vaughn had 176 yards from scrimmage and two touchdowns, and the defense held Missouri to season lows in points and yards as the Commodores shocked the No. 22 Tigers 03-14 on homecoming Saturday at Nashville, Tenn.
The product of Northern Iowa ranks second in the league with 1,213 scrimmage yards and is one of three players in NFL history (Gale Sayers and Abner Haynes) to record 15 rushing touchdowns, five receiving scores and a kickoff-return TD in his first two seasons.
Ronald Jones had 106 yards from scrimmage and rushed for a touchdown, and O.J. Howard caught a scoring pass from Winston, who engineered the 10th fourth-quarter comeback of his career as the Bucs (3-6) played their first game in Raymond James Stadium in 49 days.
On this play, Enunwa lined up before the snap as the Z (strong-side) receiver and began to motion across the formation before he stopped and came back to position himself as an H-back off the line of scrimmage, just outside the Jets' two tight ends.
Ronald Jones had 106 yards from scrimmage and rushed for a touchdown, and O.J. Howard caught a scoring pass from Winston, who engineered the 10th fourth-quarter comeback of his career as the Bucs (3-6) played their first game in Raymond James Stadium in 113 days.

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