I think you are correct. Here is a quote from Mack Brown before the season that agrees with your understanding of the new rule...Thats why I thought it was called. I think CJ had a right to the ball until it hit the ground.
Brown also took issue with the new, re-instituted halo rule that requires players to provide a one-yard buffer zone in front of players returning punts.
"Now, if [a defender is] covering me and I'm returning the punt and I bobble it and go toward him and he's within a yard of me and doesn't touch me ... it's a 15yard penalty," Brown said. "I really hope that we'll relook at some of those things and try to make a difference."