Kickoffs will look radically different in the NFL next year. Here's how and why...

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The upcoming NFL season will feature what may be the most significant change to gameplay in professional football in years: a dramatic alteration to rules around the kickoff, one of the game's most iconic plays.

Kickoffs, which occur about 10 times every NFL game and thousands of times over the course of each season, have long been the subject of scrutiny due to a heightened risk of injury for players.

But while alterations to kickoffs over the past decade or so helped make them safer, they had also made the play largely perfunctory.

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