The NFL has approved a total of 12 rules changes for the 2024 season, including six involving in-game situations.

NFL Network's Tom Pelissero provided a full list of all the changes that will go into effect for the upcoming season:

The trade deadline was a hot topic for the selection committee. A total of seven teams proposed moving it back from its traditional spot of Tuesday after Week 8. Six clubs proposed pushing it back by two weeks until the Tuesday following Week 10.

The Pittsburgh Steelers' proposal, which was approved by the league owners, moved it back to the Tuesday after Week 9 games. It will now come up on the calendar essentially halfway through the 18-week regular season.

Other major changes include penalizing and potentially fining players for the hip-drop tackle and implementing the hybrid kickoff rule based on a version that has been used in the XFL.

The hybrid kickoff rule requires the kicking team to line up 10 non-kickers at the opponent's 40-yard line, with the receiving team lining up at least seven players in the "set up zone" between its own 30- and 35-yard lines.

Players made it known they were unhappy about the proposal to ban the hip-drop tackle. They were even more vocal after owners voted to approve the measure.

An approved change that was originally proposed by the Detroit Lions gives teams a third challenge if either of their first two are successful. The previous rule granted teams a third challenge if both of the first two were successful.

Speaking of challenges, officials can now use replay to determine if a player was ruled down by contact or out of bounds prior to throwing a pass and if the game clock expires before any snap when there is "clear and obvious evidence" available.

Another adjustment will allow for both teams to be penalized in the event of offsetting fouls on a change of possession. The rule previously made it so only the team taking possession would be impacted by the penalty yardage.

Three of the bylaws changes, other than moving the trade deadline back, include giving teams an unlimited number of designated-for-return transactions in the postseason; and expanding the rule that permits clubs to elevate a "bona fide" quarterback an unlimited number of times from the practice squad to its active roster as the emergency third quarterback.

Clubs are also permitted to place a maximum of two players on the reserve list on the final day of roster cutdowns to be designated for return, but they would immediately count as two of their total designations.

Two resolutions changes involve making the injury reporting rules for players who don't travel with their clubs on road games competitively fairer; and the Hawk-Eye feed that was used in coaching booths during the 2023 preseason will return for the upcoming preseason and be fully implemented for the 2025 season.

There were a total of 10 rules changes proposed, with six from the competition committee and four by teams. Five of the competition committee proposals were approved. The lone competition committee proposal that was not approved was an amendment that would have expanded crackback prohibitions on players who go in motion and move beyond the center to block a defender at or below the knee.

The Lions' proposal was the only one from a team that was approved. Among those that didn't pass were giving an offense the option to run one 4th-and-20 play from its own 20-yard line to maintain possession rather than trying an onside kick and permitting a coach or replay official on plays inside of two minutes to challenge any foul called.

The Philadelphia Eagles proposed the 4th-and-20 rule. The challenging a foul call was proposed by the Indianapolis Colts.