Sony’s Hawk-Eye technology will be used by the NFL as the primary method for measuring the line to gain, beginning with the 2025 season, the league announced. The chain crew will remain on the field in a secondary capacity.

Starting with this year’s football season, the NFL will use Sony’s Hawk-Eye cameras to measure the line to gain — a process the chain crew has done manually for decades. The 8K cameras will use virtual measurement technology to quickly and accurately determine whether the ball traveled 10 yards for a first down.

NFL team owners enacted several rule changes on Tuesday at their meetings, which will impact the 2025-26 season. Here's the rundown of what changed, what remained the same, and what has been tabled. The Philadelphia Eagles' favorite scoring play saw 16 owners willing to vote against it continuing.

NFL owners had been set to vote on the Green Bay Packers’ proposal to ban the tush push play, but the proposal was tabled until May.