{"id":283454,"date":"2025-11-10T15:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T15:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/283454\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T15:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T15:31:08","slug":"commanders-daron-payne-suspended-for-punching-amon-ra-st-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/283454\/","title":{"rendered":"Commanders’ Daron Payne suspended for punching Amon-Ra St. Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"

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John KeimNov 10, 2025, 09:30 AM 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

The NFL has suspended Daron Payne<\/a> for one game after the Commanders<\/a> defensive lineman punched Lions<\/a> receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The NFL announced Monday that Payne was suspended without pay for unsportsmanlike conduct. He has the option to appeal the suspension.<\/p>\n

The Commanders are scheduled to play the Dolphins<\/a> in Madrid next Sunday. Payne would be eligible to return to the team the following day.<\/p>\n

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Payne was ejected in the second quarter of Sunday’s 44-22 loss to the Lions. It marked the first career ejection for the eight-year veteran.<\/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

Washington defensive tackle Javon Kinlaw<\/a> said after the game that St. Brown had punched Payne.<\/p>\n

“Yeah for sure, and they [saw it], too,” Kinlaw said of the refs. “It’s some bulls—. 100 percent.<\/p>\n

“Daron retaliated. The refs literally saw the first punch. I don’t blame him for the way he reacted. Tempers got to flaring.”<\/p>\n

St. Brown told reporters after he game that “two plays before that we got into a little scuffle, back and forth.<\/p>\n

“Then we end up scoring, and I go up to him,” the Lions star receiver said. “I say a little something, nothing crazy, and then he decides to swing on me.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John KeimNov 10, 2025, 09:30 AM ET CloseJohn Keim covers the Washington Commanders for ESPN. He joined ESPN…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-283454","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\/283454","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=283454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}