"Contact, no matter how slight" is not an accurate reflection of the rule as posted here. The rule says "Going out of bounds due to contact." If he didn't go out of bounds because of the contact, it doesn't matter if their hands happened to bump slightly or whatever.
And there's not even a remotely possible case to be made that contact caused the WR to go out of bounds.
Based on the announcement made by the officials, it sounds they didn't even review this part. Whether that actually means they didn't review it, or did review it but still got it wrong even then, I'm not sure.
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Agree x 1
Last edited: Oct 13, 2021