Following the highly controversial overtime debacle between the Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills in the AFC Divisional Round, NFL fans were quick to suggest a slew of potential rule changes. Well, it seems some of the suggestions made didn't fall upon deaf ears. NFL Football Operations announced on Wednesday that the 2022 Pro Bowl would test out a new rule change that certainly seems like a potential adjustment to the current overtime rules. The Feb. 6 game will be the debut for the “Spot and Choose” method, and there will be no kickoffs in the game.

The “Spot and Choose” method is pretty simple to understand. As explained by the NFL Football Operations' Twitter post, whichever team wins the coin toss will either elect to “spot” the ball on the field, placing it at the starting position (most likely the 25-yard line) and designate the direction of play, I.E. which side of the field they want to attack or defend. Alternatively, the coin toss winners can elect to “choose,” which means they defer the decision to choose the direction of play in favor of getting to choose whether they start on offense or defense. Regardless of the outcome of the coin toss, the “spot” decision will always be made before the “choose.”

If the team that wins the toss wants to choose to start on offense, they would defer the “spot” to the opposing team, and they would select to receive after the direction of play has been designated. The second half kickoff would start with the loser of the first half kickoff choosing either one of the aforementioned “privileges.”

While the Pro Bowl will see this rule change go into effect for the opening kickoff, it's easy to see how these alterations can be put into effect for a new overtime rule, and that is quite possibly what the NFL is experimenting with here.