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Pro Bowl goal posts narrowed, distance added for PATs

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The NFL is making several rule changes for the Pro Bowl that will directly impact the kickers.

Goal posts will be 14 feet wide instead of the traditional 18.6 feet and extra-point attempts will be moved back from the 10-yard line to the 15, NFL executive vice president of football operations Troy Vincent said Tuesday.

The league experimented with moving point-after tries back to the 15-yard line during the first two preseason game in 2014. Kickers missed eight PATs out of 141 attempts (94.3 percent) from the 15. During the regular season from the normal distance, eight point-afters failed out of 1,230 attempts (99.3 percent).

“It’ll allow us to see exactly how skilled the kicker position has actually become,” Vincent said.

The Pro Bowl kickers will be Adam Vinatieri of the Indianapolis Colts and Cody Parkey of the Philadelphia Eagles. Parkey replaced New England’s Stephen Gostkowski, who is going to the Super Bowl. Neither kicker has missed an extra-point try this season.

Another rule change for the Pro Bowl includes the number of timeouts. Each team will have two per quarter rather than three per half, but if a team uses only one timeout in the first or third quarters, it will have three remaining in the second and fourth quarters.

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