NFL executive vice president of football operations Ray Anderson told NFL.com’s Albert Breer on Friday that the NFL is going to take a closer look a blocks below the waist in light of the low block on Brian Cushing of the Houston Texans last week.

Anderson added that, in light of Cushing’s injury, “There’s no question the competition committee is going to take a look at all the low blocks we’ve seen, including chop blocks, in the offseason. So our response would be that we’ve taken recent action, responded to some concerns and hope to continue to take significant steps to protect all players.”

Breer talked to a number of players who think there is a disparity between fines for illegal activities between offensive and defensive players.

“We do take offense to it,” San Francisco 49ers safety Donte Whitner, a seven-year vet, told me over the phone on Wednesday. “But that’s the nature of the business. We always get the short end of the stick. The rules they put in are always designed to help out the offense.”

And Sports Illustrated’s Peter King reported on Twitter that the NFL will consider making all blocks below the waist illegal as of next season.

I look for the chop block to be eliminated. And I see downfield low blocks, like the one that injured Eric Berry, to be in trouble too.

— Peter King (@SI_PeterKing) November 23, 2012

To all those angry about no blocks below the waist, ask Brian Cushing–out for the year on sketchy low block–and Eric Berry, who lost 2011.

— Peter King (@SI_PeterKing) November 23, 2012

I can tell you this: I believe the league is solidly behind this and will urge CompComm to aggressively study it.

— Peter King (@SI_PeterKing) November 23, 2012

– Bill Bradley, contributing editor