Below you will find example sentences with "eligible receiver". The examples show how this phrase is used in real sentences and which words often surround it.
Eligible Receiver in a sentence
About this phrase
- Belongs to the word: receiver
Example types with eligible receiver
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Even though it’s an illegal receiver and there’s no eligible receiver in the area. (16 words)
If the pass is received by a non-eligible receiver, it is "illegal touching" (five yards and loss of down). (20 words)
With lineman Bradley Sowell in as an eligible receiver, the Bears ran an empty-set, sprint-out play to the right. (21 words)
If any player interferes with an eligible receiver's ability to catch the ball it is pass interference which draws a penalty of varying degree (largely depending upon the particular league's rules). (33 words)
Any eligible receiver that goes out of bounds is no longer an eligible receiver and cannot receive a forward pass, unless that player re-establishes by taking three steps in bounds. (31 words)
Only an eligible pass receiver may legally catch a forward pass, and only an eligible receiver may advance beyond the neutral zone if a forward pass crosses the neutral zone. (30 words)
Example sentences (8)
Any eligible receiver that goes out of bounds is no longer an eligible receiver and cannot receive a forward pass, unless that player re-establishes by taking three steps in bounds.
Only an eligible pass receiver may legally catch a forward pass, and only an eligible receiver may advance beyond the neutral zone if a forward pass crosses the neutral zone.
Even though it’s an illegal receiver and there’s no eligible receiver in the area.
A player who is not wearing a number that corresponds to an eligible receiver is ineligible even if he lines up in an eligible position.
But as the Lions were adamant that Decker was the one who reported, Allen said in the postgame pool report that he heard Skipper report as the eligible receiver.
With lineman Bradley Sowell in as an eligible receiver, the Bears ran an empty-set, sprint-out play to the right.
If any player interferes with an eligible receiver's ability to catch the ball it is pass interference which draws a penalty of varying degree (largely depending upon the particular league's rules).
If the pass is received by a non-eligible receiver, it is "illegal touching" (five yards and loss of down).