via the Detroit Free Press<\/a>, the fan was ejected from the game. The NFL, meanwhile, released a statement that it cannot intervene for an ejection of Metcalf during the game.<\/p>\n\u201cThere was no flag on the field, so New York cannot weigh in with regard to a potential disqualification,\u201d the NFL statement reads, per the Free Press.<\/p>\n
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Officials didn’t appear to see the incident. Metcalf took the field with the Steelers on their next offensive possession.<\/p>\n
Rules analyst Gene Steratore weighed in on the incident on the CBS broadcast.<\/p>\n
“On this situation, because the officials did not see this, and you wouldn’t expect them to there where DK Metcalf was, it’s not something they can weigh into from an officiating standpoint,” Steratore said.<\/p>\n
“I have been notified though, that that will be delivered to compliance with the NFL, and they’ll address it at that point.”<\/p>\n
Metcalf can surely expect discipline from the league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver DK Metcalf swung at a Lions fan’s head during an in-game altercation just before…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[152326,4,450,2120,178786,14038,451,2121,3,1329,14953,452,453],"class_list":["post-362728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-altercation","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-fan","tag-dk-metcalf","tag-headlines","tag-lions","tag-news","tag-steelers","tag-the-lions","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362728","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=362728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}