BIRMINGHAM, Ala. \u2014 The Southeastern Conference has fined No. 3 Texas A&M $50,000 for violating its policy on faking injuries during games, the conference announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The league also reprimanded coach Mike Elko for allowing cornerback Tyreek Chappell to feign an injury during the Aggies’ 45-42 win at Arkansas on Saturday. <\/p>\n
It happened with less than 13 minutes remaining in the game, when the Razorbacks completed a pass deep in A&M territory with the Aggies leading 38-27. Chappell was not in on the tackle and gave no indication he was hurt until he went to the ground and pointed to his right leg, stopping play. Texas A&M was flagged and charged a timeout because he presented as injured after the ball was spotted.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust prior to the player going down, a Texas A&M staff member can be seen in the video standing in the team area near the 25-yard line signaling demonstratively to the player, pointing to the ground,” the league said in a statement. “It was noted that the Texas A&M player had no contact during the play and returned to the game on the second play of the ensuing defensive possession.\u201d<\/p>\n
The SEC said a second violation would lead to a $100,000 fine and another reprimand. A third feigned injury would result in Elko being suspended for a game. Further violations could result in suspensions for the head coach, assistant coaches and players.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe action violates the spirit of the injury timeout and fair play and was conducted in a manner that appears to attempt to circumvent the NCAA\u2019s injury time out rule to avoid the team being charged a time out,\u201d the league said.<\/p>\n
Elko responded with a statement release on social media. <\/p>\n
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Texas A&M quarterback Marcel Reed (10) celebrates after running for a touchdown against Arkansas during the first half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025, in Fayetteville, Ark. Credit: AP\/Michael Woods<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile we accept the ruling, we do not agree with the decision and want to be clear that we never coach or instruct our players to feign injury,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
In September, the Atlantic Coast Conference fined Syracuse $25,000 and issued a public reprimand for the Orange feigning injuries in a 34-21 win over Clemson. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BIRMINGHAM, Ala. \u2014 The Southeastern Conference has fined No. 3 Texas A&M $50,000 for violating its policy on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[298,261,27,29,28,991],"class_list":{"0":"post-14643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-college","9":"tag-college-football","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-texas-headlines","12":"tag-texas-news","13":"tag-wires-bot"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}