{"id":885356,"date":"2026-10-17T09:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T09:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/885356\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T09:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T09:24:10","slug":"kc-concepcion-on-minkah-fitzpatricks-hit-it-was-a-football-play-it-wasnt-dirty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/885356\/","title":{"rendered":"KC Concepcion on Minkah Fitzpatrick&#8217;s hit: It was a football play; it wasn&#8217;t dirty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jets safety Minkah Fitzpatrick\u2019s hit on KC Concepcion on Sunday knocked out the Browns wide receiver. Concepcion was diagnosed with his first concussion.<\/p>\n<p>Fitzpatrick will appeal a fine from the NFL, calling the hit just a \u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/jets-s-minkah-fitzpatrick-will-appeal-fine-for-hit-on-kc-concepcion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">football play<\/a>\u201d despite a 15-yard unnecessary roughness penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Concepcion agrees with Fitzpatrick\u2019s assessment. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know the game that I signed up to play,\u201d Concepcion said Friday, via Mary Kay Cabot of cleveland.com. \u201cThis game is a very physical game. To me, it wasn\u2019t a dirty hit. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/browns\/2026\/10\/kc-concepcion-to-face-ravens-a-week-after-minkah-fitzpatrick-knocked-him-out-cold-it-wasnt-a-dirty-hit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">It was just a football play<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rookie first-round pick cleared concussion protocol on Friday and will play Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thank the Lord, just for him allowing me to get back up and be able to walk off the field,\u201d Concepcion said. \u201cI\u2019m like this all the time, smiling, dancing, cracking jokes. [But] I would say that I am glad that I was able to get up and be able to play again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jets safety Minkah Fitzpatrick\u2019s hit on KC Concepcion on Sunday knocked out the Browns wide receiver. Concepcion was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":885357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-885356","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\/885356","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=885356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}