You get out of the doghouse faster if you good at football.
I don't know if he's good at football.
I don't think any of us do. He's had two carries in two games lol. We can definitely extrapolate this means the staff doesn't think he's good (enough) to start (yet). But that's about it.
And I think some people are massively overblowing the kick return thing. It wasn't a lazy thing or a skills thing. It was a not knowing the brand new rule thing. IMO, that's a strong reflection of the coaching staff, especially Tomlin and Danny Smith, as well as obviously on Kaleb. I feel like the other 31 special teams coaches in the league were simultaneously praising whatever higher power they believe in that it was another team's player making that mistake, as with rule changes like this there is almost always a blunder that proves to be the lesson the rest of the league learns from. You know every single ST coach included that play in film study Monday for their teams saying "DON'T DO THIS".
Considering it felt like half the posters here were already saying in August that this was Warrens job, and Kaleb would have to earn a spot, and it might take months if not most of the season to earn a role; it seems real odd to me to see many of the same names now saying "He's a bust!". Isn't this exactly what many of you predicted? Major learning curve, having to unseat a "vet" or whatever you'd like to call Warren, is hard and won't happen overnight?
Two carries and he's a bust lol... man... Maybe he will be. But maybe let's get more than two totes on tape before making that call. Heck, I'm giving Chase Brown at least two more WEEKS of subpar performance before jumping in his thread to dredge up all the comments where people clowned on me for saying he's an average talent at best RB feasting off volume in an offense helmed by a top 5 QB and top 2 WR in the league. Or jumping in the Daniels thread to point out when I said a month or two ago Washington offense is mid, people are way too high on it in general, and that he's an injury risk waiting to happen which will also tank the entire team if he goes down. *pats myself on back for being more patient with my gloating*

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Its not brand new rules. In any level of the game KJ has played in til now, if the other team picks up the ball on the kick off, they get the ball. There's really no excuse for him.
This is incorrect. It's a brand new rule, and I would imagine lots of people missed the change, probably including players/coaches.
You're correct that a ball not fielded in the field of play is a live ball on the kickoff. That is true in both the NFL and college.
However, prior to the new kickoff rules if a ball was kicked into the endzone it was automatically a touchback, whether it was fielded or not. The ball was only live if it was in the field of play, not in the endzone And that was true whether the ball went into the endzone in the air or rolled into the endzone.
The change with the new kickoff rules is that while a ball that lands in the endzone is still a dead ball, now if the ball lands in the field of play and rolls into the endzone, it is a live ball.
So prior to 2024 it was...
Ball lands in field of play - Live Ball
Ball lands in field of play and rolls into endzone - Dead ball, touchback
Ball lands in endzone - Dead ball, touchback
But now with the new kickoff rules it is...
Ball lands in landing zone - Live Ball
Ball lands in landing zone and rolls into endzone - Live ball
<------ this is the change
Ball lands in endzone - Dead ball, touchback