{"id":894158,"date":"2026-10-25T13:28:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T13:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/894158\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T13:28:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T13:28:18","slug":"fred-warner-was-fined-for-hit-on-a-defenseless-player-malik-mustapha-was-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/894158\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Warner was fined for hit on a defenseless player, Malik Mustapha was not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>49ers linebacker Fred Warner heard from the NFL a couple of times for plays he made during Week 6. <\/p>\n<p>Warner was fined twice for hits on Commanders tight end Chig Okonkwo in the 49ers\u2019 win on Monday night. Warner was fined $17,911 for a hit on a defenseless player and $47,762 for using his helmet to initiate contact. The defenseless player hit was initially flagged during the game, but it was picked up by officials. <\/p>\n<p>If Warner is disciplined for two more hits on defenseless players, he will be suspended for one game. Warner also has been fined for a hip-drop tackle, which carries the same possibility of suspension if he is guilty of three of them. <\/p>\n<p>49ers safety Malik Mustapha avoided a flag for a hit on Stefon Diggs in the Commanders game, but some <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/malik-mustapha-avoids-another-flag-for-hit-on-defenseless-player-but-a-second-fine-is-likely\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">expected a fine<\/a> for hitting a defenseless player given the ESPN broadcast\u2019s belief that it should have been a penalty. Mustapha was not fined, however, and that means he remains at one foul toward his own possible suspension for multiple hits on defenseless players this season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"49ers linebacker Fred Warner heard from the NFL a couple of times for plays he made during Week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":894159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-894158","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\/894158","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=894158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}