Football stat help ... need help quick

[RedHotChiliPrepper]

Thanks in advance folks.

On the opening kickoff tonight, return guy has ball bounce off his chest, never caught it cleanly. Kicking team recovers.

Is this considered a fumble or just a muff?

 

[Magnum]

I believe it's a muff.

 

[ondeadline]

Muff.

 

[RedHotChiliPrepper]

Thanks folks, that's what I thought, but we questioned here whether you could muff a kickoff.

 

[hockeybeat]

Thanks in advance folks.

On the opening kickoff tonight, return guy has ball bounce off his chest, never caught it cleanly. Kicking team recovers.

Is this considered a fumble or just a muff?

Muffed kick recovered by the kicking team.

 

[Magnum]

Thanks in advance folks.

On the opening kickoff tonight, return guy has ball bounce off his chest, never caught it cleanly. Kicking team recovers.

Is this considered a fumble or just a muff?

Muffed kick recovered by the kicking team.

Wouldn't it be muffed return recovered by the kicking team?

 

[Key]

Is a muff an actual football stat? Wouldn't this be logged as a fumble?
How do you account for the change of possession? I'm asking because I really don't know.

 

[farmerjerome]

I'd think so. It has to be a turnover. A muff, but a turnover.

 

[CentralIllinoisan]

Would not be a turnover, because receiving team never had possession.