Kickers face longer challenge

NFL owners on Tuesday approved the competition committee's proposal to snap the ball from the 15-yard line on touchdown converts to make them more challenging.

In recent seasons, kickers made more than 99 percent of the kicks with the ball snapped from the 2.

"There was strong sentiment coming out of our meetings in March that something had to be done with our extra point," said Houston Texans general manager Rick Smith, a member of the competition committee that proposed this specific rule change.