The Green Bay Packers are advocating for the elimination of the “tush push” from the NFL, alongside two additional rule modifications up for a vote, as revealed by the league’s football operations department on Wednesday. It has come to light that the Packers officially submitted the proposal to outlaw the maneuver popularized by the Philadelphia Eagles.

This became official when football operations confirmed the Packers’ intent to amend Rule 12, Section 1. The Packers’ proposal seeks to “forbid an offensive player from pushing a teammate positioned directly behind the center and who receives the snap right at the start of the play.” Additionally, it stipulates that any offensive player breaching this rule would incur a penalty.

The Eagles brought the tush push into the spotlight during the 2022 season, and Green Bay witnessed its effectiveness in their playoff encounter, where the Eagles employed it multiple times en route to their Super Bowl victory. The Packers aren’t the only ones pursuing changes for 2025.

The second of the trio of proposed rule adjustments comes from the Detroit Lions, who aim to amend Rule 8, Section 4, to “remove the automatic first down as a consequence for defensive holding and illegal contact.” The present rule imposes a five-yard penalty and an automatic first down for these infractions, which the Lions argue is overly severe.

The reigning champions, the Eagles, are pushing to “align the postseason and regular-season overtime rules by ensuring both teams have the chance to possess the ball, regardless of the outcome of the initial possession, within a 15-minute overtime session during the regular season.”

The overtime rule has been a topic of debate until the NFL finally altered it to guarantee both teams a possession opportunity exclusively during the playoffs. In the regular season, the existing rules allow the game to conclude if the team with the first possession scores a touchdown, denying the opposing team a chance to respond.

The Lions are also proposing two bylaw changes for the 2025 season at the annual league gathering. They seek enhanced seeding for wild-card teams, proposing a restructuring of playoff seeding to allow wild-card teams with superior records than division champions to be ranked higher.

Currently, the four division winners in each conference secure a home game to commence the playoffs, irrespective of their record, leading to scenarios where wild-card teams outperform their opponents in the wild-card round.