The Ravens have just picked up a fourth down on a QB sneak and are moving with the ball up 20-9 in the fourth quarter. Then, two things happen.
Ryan Shazier yanks Justin Forsett away from a live ball, Steelers have life again
This is semi-legal and very painful-looking.
1. Justin Forsett fumbled the ball, and as he tries to regain possession, he's yanked away from the ball by Pittsburgh's Ryan Shazier:
Not a tactic we see often -- normally, everybody just goes straight to the ball. According to the rules, Shazier is allowed to do this if he’s trying to get to the ball. It’s not quite clear he was doing that -- it looks like he’s just trying to create some time and space for his teammates to get it -- but the refs didn’t call anything. It must not have been very fun for poor Forsett, though.
On the very next play, this pass to Antonio Brown happened.
Brown was actually ruled down at the half-yard line, but the Steelers would score a play later following a false start, but the two-point conversion failed to make the score 20-15.
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