2017 Week Nine Fine/Suspension Blotter

Starting early this week because of incidents all over the league last week.

Just announced in the ongoing legal fracas:

• Dallas Cowboys:  Ezekiel Elliot's suspension is back on.  Second Circuit Court wants no part of it.  Probably going to the Supremes, probably as early as tomorrow to get the injunction back up.

For the fracas in New Orleans:

• Tampa Bay Buccaneers:  Jameis Winston was only fined $12,154 for unnecessary entering a fight area with active involvement.
• Tampa Bay Buccaneers:  The blind-side cheap shot from Mike Evans gets a ONE-GAME SUSPENSION, with the team having to add the $40,588 he loses to their Club Remittance responsibilities.  It is the fifth NFL suspension in just four weeks.
• Probably will be other fines as well for the involvement that resulted.

Winston should get a one-game suspension upon return from his injury as well, but he won't.

For the fracas in Jacksonville:

• Cincinnati Bengals:  AJ Green:  $42,541 for his involvement in the fight, including taking Jacksonville's Jalen Ramsey around the neck and throwing him to the ground.  (Probably $30,387 for the fight and $12,154 for more involvement.)
• Ramsey was NOT fined, nor was anyone else for the involvement.

For the fracas in San Francisco:

• San Francisco 49ers:  Carlos Hyde, $9,115 for being in the fight in a manner deemed unsportsmanlike conduct. 
• San Francisco 49ers:  Same for Antoine Bethea
• Arizona Cardinals:  Same for Haason Reddick
• Arizona Cardinals:  Same for Frostee Rucker
• Those are the first two fines in the 2017 season for the Arizona Cardinals.

In other incidents:

• Washington Redskins:  Josh Norman at it again, repeat offender $36,464 for a horse-collar tackle.
• Seattle Seahawks:  Jarran Reid:  $18,231 for roughing the passer. 
• Seattle Seahawks:  Tedric Thompson:  $24,309 for an illegal blindside block.  That's about $79K from that game.
• Green Bay Packers:  Mike Daniels:  $9,115 for a headbutt.
• Dallas Cowboys:  Byron Jones:  $12,154 for unsportsmanlike conduct
• Dallas Cowboys:  Xavier Woods:  $24,309, another illegal blindside block.
• Buffalo Bills:  Shaq Lawson:  $18,231 for roughing the passer.
• That is the Bills' first fine of the season -- three other players could've been fined for personal fouls, but the league decided not to.
• Indianapolis Colts:  Jeremiah George:  $18,231 for a horse-collar tackle.
• Oakland Raiders:  Karl Joseph:  $18,231 for unnecessary roughness
• Los Angeles Rams:  Roger Saffold:  $9,115 for a chop block.
• That's the Rams' first fine of the season.
• This now means ALL 32 TEAMS have had at least one dirty-hit fine by the end of Week Nine.  The Clean Slate Blotter now is empty for the rest of the season.

(Pending any further later in the weekend.)

Over $338,000 so far this week.

Thirteen teams, including none of the top four fined teams, but all three of the last three teams to be fined this year, as well as five of the current bottom eight.

Clean Slate:  Done for the year.  No teams left.

No teams added to Level 1 or Level 2.