{"id":217686,"date":"2025-10-11T22:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T22:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/217686\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T22:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T22:12:07","slug":"leonard-williams-fined-46371-for-head-butting-cade-otton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/217686\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonard Williams fined $46,371 for head butting Cade Otton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seahawks defensive lineman Leonard Williams picked up one of the biggest fines of this NFL season for a hit with his helmet after the play was over on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Williams was fined $46,371 for head butting Buccaneers tight end Cade Otton during a post-play skirmish in the end zone.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s more than twice as much as any other NFL player was fined in Week Five, but the NFL takes striking with the helmet seriously, whether it\u2019s during a play or after.<\/p>\n<p>Williams\u2019 penalty gave the Buccaneers an automatic first down and half the distance to the goal line, and they scored a touchdown on the next play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seahawks defensive lineman Leonard Williams picked up one of the biggest fines of this NFL season for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-217686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}