{"id":272022,"date":"2025-11-08T23:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T23:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/272022\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T23:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T23:11:08","slug":"nfl-fines-texans-lb-azeez-al-shaair-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/272022\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL fines Texans LB Azeez Al-Shaair, again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three weeks ago, Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair was flagged for unnecessary roughness <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/azeez-al-shaair-avoids-fine-for-tackling-sam-darnold-out-of-bounds\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:but wasn\u2019t fined;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">but wasn\u2019t fined<\/a>. Last week, Al-Shaair wasn&#8217;t flagged for a hit on a defenseless player. He was, however, fined for it.<\/p>\n<p>The league announced on Saturday that Al-Shaair will pay $17,389 for a hit on a defenseless player. it happened in the fourth quarter of the Week 9 loss to the Broncos, when Al-Shaair hit running back J.K. Dobbins after he caught a pass for a loss of two yards.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Last December, the league suspended Al-Shaair for three games <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Rad_Megss\/status\/1863335663887593504\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:after he hit;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">after he hit<\/a> Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence in the head with a forearm while Lawrence was sliding. Al-Shaair had a history of <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/azeez-al-shaairs-history-of-violations-surfaces\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:13 violations and seven fines since 2020;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">13 violations and seven fines since 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is Al-Shaair&#8217;s third fine since his suspension. He drew a $20,555 fine for illegal use of his helmet during a playoff win over the Chargers. Al-Shaair also was fined $17,39 for a <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JustinM_NFL\/status\/1972354900349870299\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:blatant (but unflagged) blow to the head;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">blatant (but unflagged) blow to the head<\/a> of Titans quarterback Cam Ward in Week 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three weeks ago, Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair was flagged for unnecessary roughness but wasn\u2019t fined. Last week, Al-Shaair&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[158081,64,63,20981,5372,62470,593,85,6578,144317],"class_list":["post-272022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-al-shaair","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-azeez-al-shaair","tag-cam-ward","tag-j-k-dobbins","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-trevor-lawrence","tag-unnecessary-roughness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272022","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=272022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}