The NFL confirmed that Jets safety Minkah Fitzpatrick was fined for his hit on a defenseless KC Concepcion in the Jets\u2019 Week 5 win over the Browns and they announced five other players were fined for the player safety fouls that count toward potential suspensions. <\/p>\n
Fitzpatrick said this week that he plans to appeal the $17,911 fine for the hit, which knocked Concepcion out of the game with a concussion. Concepcion has cleared concussion protocol and is set to play against the Ravens in Week 6. <\/p>\n
Fitzpatrick was also fined $11,941 for tackling Concepcion by the facemask earlier in the game. <\/p>\n
Colts linebacker Austin Ajiake and 49ers safety Malik Mustapha were also fined for hits on defenseless players. Ajiake\u2019s fine was $5,583 and Mustapha\u2019s was $6,998.<\/p>\n
Ravens defensive tackle Nnamdi Madubuike ($17,911), Lions defensive end D.J. Wonnum ($12,611), and Titans cornerback Micah Robinson ($5,583) were all fined for hip-drop tackles. <\/p>\n
It is the first infraction for each player. Any player who is fined three times for one of five player safety rules \u2014 horse-collar tackles, launching and blindside blocks are the others \u2014 is subject to a one-game suspension. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL confirmed that Jets safety Minkah Fitzpatrick was fined for his hit on a defenseless KC Concepcion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":886581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-886580","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\/886580","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=886580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}