Sack yardage

I know we've covered this before, but a quick search ain't helping me.

Sack yards ... count as team rushing (i.e. fumble recovery) or individual rushing?

 

According to the NCAA manual, individual rushing.

 

Thank you. I thought that, but then I was having a moment of self-doubt.

I wish we could get the stats discussion thread stickied, since it's an immense, quick resource.

 

Another example of how the NFL manages to take something simple and screw it up.

 

If I really stretched, I could probably make it a yard.

 

In high school or college, it can only be on what appears to be a passing attempt. If a quarterback is tackled behind the line of scrimmage on an option play, it's not a sack.

 

That would really hurt to have one's scrotum knocked over the Green Monster.

 

That's fucking great. My egg roll is trying to make a comeback.

 

That's true. But it would just affect defensive stats (sacks), since whether its a sack or a rush, it would still be one carry and the negative yards.

 

Actually, I think counting it as passing yardage kind of makes sense. If it's clearly a passing play, and it loses yardage, why wouldn't that come off the passing total?

 

deskslave,
It's only a passing play when the ball is passed forward. Although someone is in shotgun or dropping back, there is no pass — hence no passing attempt, completion or yardage — until the ball is passed.
Of course, this is the same organization which let a defender be penalized last year for roughing the passer on a sack in which the quarterback never threw the ball.