Can someone explain the Lamar Jackson-RG3 play today

[SantaClaraHawk]

https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2019/11/10 ... am-heisman

The above says Ingram was in as a tailback and that RG3 was in what I think is a RB position, but the article implies that RG3 was in as QB2.

This is confusing. Is it possible for two people to line up as QBs, and if so do they just pass laterals to each other.

 

[Seanhawk]

That was just an option play. It doesn't matter if you have 1, 2, 3, or 0 QBs in the backfield, they still have to follow the rules of football. You can pitch it backwards as many times as you want, but you can only throw it forward from behind the LOS once.

 

[SantaClaraHawk]

ok thanks...but if the case why didn't they just line RG3 up as an extra receiver so you wouldn't have to pitch backward?

 

[Seanhawk]

I don't know. That was the design of the play. If they wanted to throw it to him, they would have lined him up at receiver.

 

[SantaClaraHawk]

OK. Maybe the gimmick is the advantage lol