The Tush Push, Brotherly Shove, or whatever you want to call it, remains for the 2025 season as the NFL owners rejected a proposal from the Green Bay Packers in a Wednesday vote at the league's Spring Meeting to ban the play.
By a reported vote of 22-10, the Packers' proposal was rejected. The proposal needed 24 of the 32 votes to pass.
The Eagles' contingent, led by Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Lurie, included former center Jason Kelce, who lobbied NFL owners prior to the vote, quickly boarded a flight back to Philadelphia after the meetings ended in Eagan, Minnesota, without specifically addressing the outcome. Lurie was reported as saying that he was "pleased" with the outcome of the vote.
Behind one of the league's top offensive lines coached by Jeff Stoutland and a quarterback in Jalen Hurts who can squat more than 600 pounds, the Eagles have found success in recent years using the play.
In the 2024 season, Philadelphia converted 39-of-48 attempts (81.3 percent). In 2023, it converted on 88.1 percent of attempts and in 2022 it finished 36 of 39, good for 92.3 percent.
"I think for everybody, including myself especially – health and safety is the most important thing when evaluating any play," Lurie said at the NFL Annual Meeting in April. "We've been very open to whatever data exists on the Tush Push, there's just been no data that shows that it isn't a very, very safe play. If it weren't, we wouldn't be pushing the Tush Push.
"It's a play that's available to every other team in the league. I don't ever remember a play being banned because a single team or a few teams were running it effectively. It's part of what I personally and I think most of us love about football, is that it's a chess match. Let the chess match play out and if for any reason it does get banned, we will try to be the very best at short-yardage situations and we've got a lot of ideas there."
