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Close<\/a>Kris Rhim is a reporter for NFL Nation at ESPN. Kris covers the Los Angeles Chargers, including coach Jim Harbaugh’s franchise-altering first season (https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/41068072\/los-angeles-chargers-2024-preview-jim-harbaugh-culture). In Kris’ free time, he lives his NBA dreams at men’s leagues across Los Angeles.<\/p>\n EL SEGUNDO, Calif — The NFL fined Los Angeles Chargers<\/a> defensive tackle Teair Tart<\/a> for slapping Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> tight end Travis Kelce<\/a> in the Chargers’ 27-21 Week 1 win in Sao Paulo, Brazil, a source told ESPN.<\/p>\n According to NFL rules, the fine for a first offense of striking is $12,172. The NFL announces fines on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n After a play in the third quarter, Kelce shoved Tart, who responded by slapping Kelce’s helmet, drawing a 15-yard unnecessary roughness penalty. According to rules analyst Terry McAulay on the YouTube broadcast, Tart wasn’t ejected because he made open-hand contact, which doesn’t rise to the level of a disqualifying action. A closed fist, or punch, would have gotten Tart ejected.<\/p>\n Tart signed a one-year, $1.5 million contract with the Chargers in the offseason, and the team paid him a $2 million bonus ahead of offseason activities. Tart also receives a $58,000 bonus — on top of his guaranteed salary — for each regular-season game he is active.<\/p>\n Kansas City coach Andy Reid told reporters Monday that he was confused about why Tart wasn’t ejected.<\/p>\n “I don’t understand that rule,” Reid said Monday. “I guess it’s open-hand, fist, whatever, I don’t know. I don’t know what their decision was on that. But he definitely got hit in the head pretty hard, whether it was an open fist or a closed fist.”<\/p>\n In the aftermath of the slap, Tart took to Instagram with an apparent jab at Kelce and his new fiancee, singer Taylor Swift. Tart posted a collage of pictures, including a video that included a movie clip of a man slapping another with his hands coated in a white powder. Tart’s caption read: “I’m too swift with it even in Brazil.” In response to the post, commenters flooded Tart’s Instagram account with racist images.<\/p>\n The Chargers play the Chiefs again in Week 15 (1:00 p.m., CBS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kris RhimSep 13, 2025, 08:30 AM CloseKris Rhim is a reporter for NFL Nation at ESPN. Kris covers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-138781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}