The NFL Competition Committee will afford the replay assistant more latitude to overturn certain roughing the passer and intentional grounding penalties, according to NFL Network's Tom Pelissero.

"The competition committee has long opposed challenges to penalty calls because it essentially substitutes one person's judgment for another's," Pelissero wrote on X. "This is much more narrow, but another step toward empowering the replay assistant to fix clear and obvious mistakes."

Any change that allows penalty calls to be reviewable brings to mind when the NFL let pass interference be subject to replay reviews. The rule was scrapped after just one year because the overwhelming majority of rulings upheld the call on the field, occasionally despite clear evidence to the contrary.

This isn't the first offseason in which NFL team owners have weighed a similar experiment with roughing the passer. Perhaps the general outcry finally became too loud to ignore.

Seemingly every week there was at least one situation in which a defender was flagged for what appeared to be a legal hit on a quarterback. Especially in retrospect, it's perhaps telling the NFL's Football Operations account felt the need in November to outline the roughing the passer rule.

Allowing roughing the passer to be corrected in real time sounds great in theory. Some fans might be cautiously optimistic about how the new rule is applied in practice, though, after the pass interference change was such a flop.

This could also be a situation where the frustration doesn't ultimately stem from refs making the wrong call but instead from them going by the letter of the law. It's only a matter of time before a contentious roughing the passer call is upheld because the hit qualified due to the specific language of the rule.