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Originally Posted by HMc
He pretty obviously gave himself up. He got up, dumped the ball and started celebrating. If ever a runner has "given themselves up", it would have to be here. Not a fumble.
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He was tripped up and fell to the ground, then jumped up assuming he'd been tackled. Where in the **** does giving himself up fall into that? Thinking you got tackled and then celebrating is not giving yourself up. Giving yourself up must be voluntary with no outside contact and in the normal field of play. That wasn't this. If he were touched by the Chiefs defender, it counts as down. That is unclear, which is why I said it wouldn't be overturned, but he DEFINITELY did not give himself up under any definition of the rule.