The owners of the NFL approved a change of rule allowing the two teams to have the balloon in overtime during the regular season. This will correspond to the rule of the playoffs, the sudden death deciding the match if it remains tied after each team has possession.
Overtime of the regular season will remain a maximum of 10 minutes with the match declared after that.
The previous rule of the regular season allowed the team with the ball first to finish the match with a touchdown.
In 2024, the team winning the print in extension went 12-4 and overtime lasted only 11.6 games. The percentage of touchdown in the first training was 37.5%.
The League has reduced the regular hours of the regular season by a maximum of 15 minutes to 10 minutes in 2017, and this will remain the case in 2025 on the safety problems of additional games.
