{"id":282193,"date":"2025-11-09T23:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T23:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/282193\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T23:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T23:46:08","slug":"commanders-daron-payne-ejected-for-throwing-punch-vs-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/282193\/","title":{"rendered":"Commanders’ Daron Payne ejected for throwing punch vs. Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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John KeimNov 9, 2025, 05:58 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

LANDOVER, Md. — Washington Commanders<\/a> defensive tackle Daron Payne<\/a> was ejected in the second quarter of Sunday’s game against the Lions<\/a> after punching Detroit receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After Detroit scored its third touchdown of the first half, Payne slugged St. Brown with his right hand after a verbal exchange. He was given an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty and an automatic ejection.<\/p>\n

It marked the first time Payne, in his eighth season, has been ejected from a game.<\/p>\n

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Detroit succeeded on the 2-point conversion to take a 22-3 lead.<\/p>\n

Washington’s defense has struggled all season — in the past four weeks, the Commanders ranked 31st in the NFL in both yards and points allowed — but its main strength was the interior of the defensive line led by Payne and Javon Kinlaw<\/a>. Payne’s five tackles for a loss are third on the team.<\/p>\n

Kinlaw earned an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty one play after Payne’s ejection following the conversion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John KeimNov 9, 2025, 05:58 PM ET CloseJohn Keim covers the Washington Commanders for ESPN. He joined ESPN…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-282193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282193","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=282193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}