Tag: NFL fines

Kalif Raymond fined for block vs. Chargers

Lions WR Kalif Raymond fined for block vs. Chargers, while L.A. safety Derwin James earned a much bigger fine in the game

Lions wide receiver Kalif Raymond has been levied a fine by the NFL for a questionable block against the Los Angeles Chargers.

Raymond was fined $15,138 for unnecessary roughness in the Week 10 win over the Chargers. It came on a David Montgomery run play midway through the third quarter and Raymond was not flagged on the play. Raymond charged in and threw a block that might have been too high, though it was hard to see from the game video.

On the Chargers side, safety Derwin James got hit with a $43,710 fine. James unnecessary roughness hit on Lions wideout Josh Reynolds on the third play of the second half earned the hefty fine.

NFL fines Falcons safety Richie Grant for unnecessary roughness

Falcons safety Richie Grant has been fined by the NFL for unnecessary roughness against the Cardinals

Atlanta Falcons safety Richie Grant is the latest member of the team to receive a fine from the NFL for unnecessary roughness.

Grant has been fined $12,528 for his hit on Cardinals tight end Trey McBride in the third quarter of Sunday’s loss in Arizona, ESPN’s Michael Rothstein reported on Saturday afternoon.

The secondary has received a handful of fines already this season. Last week, cornerback Dee Alford was fined $4,853 for an unnecessary roughness violation against the Vikings.

In Week 9, cornerback Jeff Okudah and safety Jessie Bates received fines of $16,391 and $21,855, respectively. The Falcons are off this weekend before returning in Week 12 against the New Orleans Saints at home.

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Falcons CB Dee Alford fined for unnecessary roughness

Falcons CB Dee Alford has been fined by the NFL for unnecessary roughness during last week’s loss to the Vikings

Atlanta Falcons cornerback Dee Alford has been fined by the NFL for an unnecessary roughness violation he committed during the team’s Week 9 loss to the Minnesota Vikings, Tom Pelissero of the NFL Network reported on Saturday.

Alford’s hit on Vikings wide receiver K.J. Osborn, which can be seen below, earned the cornerback a fine of $4,853.

The Falcons have received a handful of fines for unsportsmanlike conduct this season, but as we pointed out earlier this week, these fines don’t always tell the whole story.

Fullback Keith Smith was reportedly fined $87,000, however, it was never reported that Smith won his appeal and the NFL overturned the fine.

Atlanta ruled out Alford for Sunday’s game against the Arizona Cardinals due to an ankle injury. Without their starting nickel corner, the Falcons will look to veteran Mike Hughes and rookie Clark Phillips III.

Head coach Arthur Smith said the team had confidence in Phillips to step up in Alford’s absence.

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Josh Allen, Cordell Volson fined by NFL due to actions in Bills vs. Bengals

Bills vs. Bengals fined by the NFL after the primetime showdown.

The Cincinnati Bengals had one player fined by the NFL coming out of the Week 9 win over the Buffalo Bills.

Per the NFL’s accountability page, Bengals guard Cordell Volson got a $5,746 fine letter from the league for an unnecessary roughness infraction in the fourth quarter.

Volson blinded a Bills player away from a pile near the end of a play while an official was blowing a whistle, prompting this fine.

More notably, Bills star quarterback Josh Allen got hit with a $10,927 fine from the NFL due to his unsportsmanlike conduct infraction in the first quarter, which featured him pointing at a Bengals defender while running for a touchdown.

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Jack Campbell fined for low hit on Jimmy Garoppolo

Any contact initiated below the knee will get flagged, even if the player was tripped or pushed into the quarterback. The fine, however, seems harsh for an inadvertent and unavoidable play by a first-time offender.

Lions rookie linebacker Jack Campbell is a little lighter in the wallet after being fined by the NFL. Campbell was assessed a fine of $14,871 for a low hit on Raiders QB Jimmy Garoppolo in Monday night’s win in Ford Field.

Campbell was penalized on the play for roughing the passer. He burst through the Raiders O-line on a rush and lost his balance after some lower-body contact with a lineman. He crashed into Garoppolo’s legs.

Any contact initiated below the knee will get flagged, even if the player was tripped or pushed into the quarterback. The fine, however, seems harsh for an inadvertent and unavoidable play by a first-time offender.

NFL should be ashamed of fines against Steelers RB Jaylen Warren

The NFL is literally stealing money from running back Jaylen Warren and should be ashamed.

I will never pretend to understand why the NFL does what they do. There seems to be no rhyme or reason for how they enforce their rules and the mantra of player safety is nothing more than a facade.

The NFL has also never been very subtle when it comes to targeting players for punishment and once you are on their radar, the league seems to have no principles when it comes to creating a financial hardship for a player for no good reason.

The latest player the league seems to have some sort of personal stake in ruining is Pittsburgh Steelers running back Jaylen Warren. The league fined Warren more than $48,000 last week for a block he made on a blitz pickup that did not draw a flag, which amounted to the entirety of his game check.

This is the second time this season Warren has gotten a massive fine like this for a legal block the officials on the field felt was well within the rules. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and his $64 million a year salary should be ashamed. Warren’s base salary is only $870,000 so he has been fined over 10 percent of his earnings for two legal plays.

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Two Ravens fined for hits in Week 7 game against the Lions

Two Ravens fined for hits in Week 7 game against the Lions, and the bigger fine came on a play that wasn’t penalized

The Baltimore Ravens’ win over the Detroit Lions in Week 7 was an expensive one for a couple of Ravens players. Two of them were fined for illegal hits in the game against Detroit.

One of them came on a play that earned a penalty in the game. Ravens LB Roquan Smith was fined $16,391 for a hit on Detroit QB Jared Goff that drew a roughing-the-passer penalty on the first play of the fourth quarter.

The other fine comes from a play that resulted in no penalty, but a larger fine. Wideout Odell Beckham Jr. was fined $21,844 for lowering his helmet to initiate contact with Lions safety Kerby Joseph, also in the fourth quarter. Joseph had to leave the game to get cleared in the concussion protocol after being on the receiving end of the helmet-to-helmet hit from Beckham.

No Lions committed any fine-worthy offenses in Baltimore.

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Jamaal Williams fined more for dancing than Quay Walker was for shoving a Lions trainer

The NFL decided that Williams TD dance was worse than Walker striking a Lions trainer

One of the common memes, one that dates back to before anyone ever heard of a meme, is that the NFL stands for “No Fun League.” The league certainly proved that in announcing the player fines from Week 18 games.

Lions running back Jamaal Williams was fined $18,566 for his celebratory dance following one of his two rushing touchdowns in Detroit’s win in Green Bay in Week 18. It’s hard to know which one drew the fine, because it was the same celebration both times and neither was flagged on the field. Williams does a hip swivel groove that is a staple of NFL cheerleading routines that go on at the same time as touchdown dances.

Here’s where the NFL really got things wrong.

Packers LB Quay Walker was ejected from the game for shoving a Lions trainer attempting to tend to an injured D’Andre Swift. His fine for the blatant unsportsmanlike conduct was just $13,261.

That’s right; shoving a trainer and getting ejected is worthy of a lesser fine than a touchdown celebration dance.

It’s Williams’ second fine this year for an overexuberant touchdown dance. It’s also Walker’s second ejection for striking a member of the opposing training staff in his rookie season.

 

Talk about some truly awful optics for the NFL.

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The NFL fined Lions RB Jamaal Williams for his too-sexy TD dance

Williams celebration dance cost in Week 3 him over $13,000

The old adage that sex sells doesn’t apparently apply to the NFL, even though what Lions RB Jamaal Williams did was not sexual in nature. Williams was fined by the NFL just over $13,000 for his unsportsmanlike conduct penalty he earned in Week 3 for a touchdown celebration dance.

Williams celebrated his second touchdown of the Week 3 game against the Minnesota Vikings with a dance that involved some swaying and gyrating hips in the end zone. It’s a celebratory dance he’s done several times before and had never been flagged, but the officials took some offense to Williams’ rhythmic movements.

No word on if Williams will appeal the fine for being too fine.

 

Texans coach Lovie Smith fined $50K for OTAs violations

Houston Texans coach Lovie Smith was fined $50,000 for violations during the course of the team’s organized team activities.

No one can accuse of the Houston Texans of being soft.

According to Dan Graziano from ESPN, Texans coach Lovie Smith was fined $50,000 due to prohibited one-on-one drills between the offensive and defensive lines during organized team activities.

It is plausible that the rules changed between the last time Smith led an NFL team with the 2015 Tampa Bay Buccaneers. That was a different collective bargaining agreement than the one that was agreed upon in 2020. However, Smith was in the league as the Texans’ defensive coordinator and associate head coach last year under David Culley.

Rough OTAs and performance in the regular season do not always correlate. The Jacksonville Jaguars were similarly hit in 2021 for OTAs infractions, but ended up firing coach Urban Meyer en route to a 3-14 finish.

There is a common theme between the Jaguars’ fine and the Texans’: new offensive line coach George Warhop, who coached in the same capacity for Jacksonville from 2019-21. However, the Jaguars’ 2021 violation involved the receivers and defensive backs, not the offensive line.

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