The NFL has officially made the hip-drop tackle illegal.

The league announced Monday that owners banned the hip-drop tackle due to safety reasons during the NFL owners’ meetings in Orlando, Fla.

The rule-change came after NFL executive vice president of football operations Troy Vincent discussed player safety and insisted that the hip-drop tackle is “something we want to get out of the game.”

“The greatest asset for any athlete is durability and availability,” Vincent said, according to ESPN. “When you have a play that has a 20-25 times the injury rate, it doesn’t allow you to fulfill your dreams.”

Conversely, the NFLPA has been vocal about opposing the rule-change.

The NFLPA asked the league to reconsider implementing the rule and cited concern that it could make defenders’ jobs more difficult and confuse players — and cause difficulty among officiating in real-time.

The official rule is stated below, per NFL.com:

ARTICLE 18. HIP-DROP TACKLE. It is a foul if a player uses the following technique to bring a runner to the ground:

(a) grabs the runner with both hands or wraps the runner with both arms; and

(b) unweights himself by swiveling and dropping his hips and/or lower body, landing on and trapping the runner’s leg(s) at or below the knee.

Penalty: For a Hip-Drop Tackle: Loss of 15 yards and an automatic first down.

The NFL Competition Committee was reportedly unanimous on the decision to ban the hip-drop tackle, citing severity and frequency of injury.

“Do we have a problem? The answer was yes,” NFL Competition Committee chairman Rich McKay said on Monday. “This will be a hard one to call on the field, you have to see every element of it. We want to make it a rule so we can deal on the discipline during the week.”

It came after McKay said last week that not all hip-drops will be prohibited, according to NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero.

“This is a specific type do a tackle where a player grabs and unweights himself … and comes down on the knee or the ankle,” McKay said. “It’s hard for us at the National Football League to walk out of a room and not address this.”

The NFL doesn’t have a clear definition on a what a hip-drop tackle is, which some on social media, including former players and analysts, noted was a cause for concern.

“I’m all for player safety,” former Buccaneers and Colts coach Tony Dungy wrote on X. “We need to make the game as safe as possible. And I must admit I don’t know what a ‘hip drop’ tackle is. Having played & coached defense I can tell you there is only one way to make a tackle from behind without dropping your weight-which could be worse.”

More rule-changes are expected, as the hip-drop tackle was one of 10 rule-change proposals.