In 2025, the NFL adopted regular-season overtime rules that guarantee both teams a possession. The new rule has been used twice this season, most recently at AT&T Stadium for the Packers-Cowboys game on Sunday night.

But there’s a significant asterisk.

If the team that gets the ball first consumes the full 10 minutes of overtime to score a field goal or a touchdown, the game ends with that team winning. It doesn’t matter if the team that kicked off to start overtime doesn’t get an otherwise guaranteed possession.

More than a few PFT readers and PFT Live viewers have asked for clarification of the issue. We asked the league, just to be sure.

And the NFL has confirmed that, in theory, the team that receives possession of the opening kickoff in overtime can indeed use the full 10 minute

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