{"id":227870,"date":"2025-10-16T01:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T01:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/227870\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T01:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T01:29:07","slug":"suspension-of-lions-safety-brian-branch-upheld-upon-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/227870\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspension of Lions safety Brian Branch upheld upon appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oct 15, 2025, 08:41 PM ET<\/p>\n

The one-game suspension of Detroit Lions<\/a> safety Brian Branch<\/a> was upheld upon appeal Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The hearing officer was Jordy Nelson, who was jointly appointed by the NFL and the NFL Players Association.<\/p>\n

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The NFL on Monday suspended Branch for one game without pay for unsportsmanlike conduct after he struck Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster<\/a> and set off a brief fight Sunday night.<\/p>\n

“Your aggressive, non-football act was entirely unwarranted, posed a serious risk of injury, and clearly violated the standards of conduct and sportsmanship expected of NFL players,” NFL vice president of football operations Jon Runyan<\/a> wrote in a letter to Branch explaining the suspension. “Your conduct reflected poorly on the NFL and has no place in our game.”<\/p>\n

Branch will miss the Lions’ game Monday night against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a> and will be eligible to return to the active roster the following day.<\/p>\n

ESPN’s Eric Woodyard and The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 15, 2025, 08:41 PM ET The one-game suspension of Detroit Lions safety Brian Branch was upheld upon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-227870","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\/227870","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=227870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}