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John KeimNov 4, 2025, 10:46 PM ET<\/p>\n
Close<\/a>John Keim covers the Washington Commanders for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2013 after a stint with the Washington Post. He started covering the team in 1994 for the Journal Newspapers and later for the Washington Examiner. He has authored\/co-authored four books. You can also listen to him on ‘The John Keim Report’, which airs on ESPN Richmond radio.<\/p>\n Washington Commanders<\/a> linebacker Frankie Luvu<\/a> won’t be suspended for repeated violations of the rule against hip-drop tackles, the NFL announced Tuesday night.<\/p>\n Luvu had appealed a ruling that he would be suspended one game, costing him a game check worth $508,333.<\/p>\n Derrick Brooks, jointly appointed by the NFL and the NFLPA, heard the appeal. Luvu was instead fined $100,000.<\/p>\n Luvu will play vs. Detroit on Sunday. The Commanders (3-6) have lost four consecutive games.<\/p>\n The NFL ruled that Luvu violated the policy again in Sunday night’s 38-14 loss to Seattle while making a tackle in the first quarter vs. receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba<\/a>.<\/p>\n It was Luvu’s third time being fined for a hip-drop tackle, leading him to become the first player suspended under this rule before he successfully appealed the ruling. He was fined for violating the policy after Weeks 4 and 8.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n 2 Related<\/p>\n Luvu was fined $23,186 for his Week 4 violation and another $46,372 after Week 8.<\/p>\n According to a news release from the NFL, the league cited Luvu for violating a rule intended to “protect the health and safety of players.” The rule states that it’s a violation if a player uses a technique to tackle a player in which he “grabs the runner with one or both hands or wraps the runner with both arms; and unweights himself by swiveling or dropping his hips and\/or lower body, landing on and\/or trapping the runner’s leg(s) at or below the knee.”<\/p>\n Washington’s defense could ill afford more losses, even if for just one game.<\/p>\n Starting corner Marshon Lattimore<\/a> sustained a season-ending torn ACL vs. the Seahawks and was placed on injured reserve. Three other defensive starters are also on injured reserve: ends Deatrich Wise Jr<\/a>. and Dorance Armstrong<\/a> and safety Will Harris<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John KeimNov 4, 2025, 10:46 PM ET CloseJohn Keim covers the Washington Commanders for ESPN. He joined ESPN…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-262956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}