 So if you just watched that last video on kickoffs, you may be wondering what would prevent a team who is kicking off from maybe just kicking the ball real short and instead of the Receiving team being able to run up and grab it. What if one of the third guys? Can run up and grab it first and would they get the ball right there and The answer is yes, they can kick it short, but no it can't be that short So what we're actually talking about here is something called an on-side kick And so teams will do this. Maybe they're down Late in the game. They're not gonna have enough time To kick the ball off normally and stop the other team So what they will do is something called an on-side kick and that rules for an on-side kick state that the ball Must go at least ten yards so the Just go ten yards And that's really the only Roll That there is so so the ball will be kicked just over as we said the the receiving team cannot come closer than ten yards So you do have to kick it into the the receiving team, but and the as with all kickoffs the members of the kicking team cannot cross The line until the ball has been kicked, but it is possible to kick that ball Ten yards and for this team to run up and recover it doesn't even have to touch a player on the receiving team although you can imagine if you're only ten yards away and you kick that ball pretty hard sometimes it's going to be Difficult for them to catch and so it might bounce off of a member of the receiving team and back To the kicking team but as long as that ball is goes at least ten yards The kicking team can recover it and then that would be the line of scrimmage for them to start an offense And that's one thing to note That the ball does not have to touch a member of the receiving team so for some odd reason if even if the ball was kicked way It was kicked kick kind of normally And for some odd reason no no team or no member of the receiving team were to touch it Maybe they are moving the other way this guy thinks that this guy's got it and Something gets messed up and nobody touches this ball The kicking team can run down and they can recover that ball It's a free ball. It does not have to touch The receiving team this is only applies though in kickoffs rather than it does not apply and punts Which we'll look at down the road, but that is how an onside kick would work