The hip-drop tackle surfaced in rugby league as a convenient, hazardous way for trailing defenders to floor a speeding ball carrier, whose bones and ligaments buckled under the tackler's dead weight.

It was a fairly clear example of a hip-drop, which is currently unpunished in rugby union but has recently been outlawed in NFL and has long been penalised in rugby league. The hip-drop has been ...

This offseason, the NFL banned the hip-drop tackle, a rugby-style play in which a defender swivels his hips, unweights ...

A devastated Brandon Smith says there is no bad blood between him and Elliott Whitehead after the hip-drop tackle that ...

How does the hip-drop tackle actually work ... members of the National Rugby League. As tackling techniques became more ...

Texans coach DeMeco Ryans, having reviewed film of the play, said Monday he believes RB Joe Mixon's ankle injury Sunday night ...

Hopefully he's OK." The league in March approved a rule proposal to ban the swivel hip-drop tackle, a rugby tackling style that has caused mainly lower leg injuries in recent years. According to ...

Elliott Whitehead has played his last game in the NRL with the Raiders captain accepting a three-game suspension for a hip drop tackle on Brandon Smith. Whitehead was hit with a grade three ...

In vision obtained by Fox League, Whitehead is seen going over ... Elliott should have not done the hip drop to start with and then should he have had raised it in the press conference and then ...

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