NFL star slapped with punishment for punching | NFL News

Washington Commanders defensive lineman Daron Payne has been handed a one-match ban by the NFL following his sucker-punch on Detroit Lions receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown during his facet’s 44-22 defeat on Sunday. Payne, talking through team-mate Javon Kinlaw after the match, maintained that St. Brown provoked the altercation. He has now confirmed his intention to appeal the suspension.

Should his appeal show profitable, he might be permitted to journey with Washington to Madrid next week for the membership’s worldwide fixture against the Miami Dolphins. Payne failed to register a single sort out in a match that will largely be remembered for President Donald Trump‘s peculiar mid-game look in the printed sales space. St Brown carried out a celebration aimed at Trump before being struck in the face.

The confrontation with St. Brown occurred in the second quarter following Detroit’s third landing: a 13-yard run by Jaymyr Gibbs. Kinlaw insisted St. Brown threw the first punch.

“Yeah, for sure, and [the refs saw it], too,” he said. “It’s some b——. 100 per cent,” Daron retaliated. “The refs literally saw the first punch. I don’t blame him for the way he reacted. Tempers got to flaring.”

St. Brown did not precisely play down his position when questioned after the ultimate whistle. “I mean, I think two plays before that, we got into a little scuffle, back and forth, whatever, this, that, and the other,” the Lions star told reporters.

“And then we end up scoring, and I go up to him. I say a little something, nothing crazy, and then he decides to swing on me, so, I mean, it is what it is.”

St. Brown, a former First-team All-Pro, concluded the match with 5 receptions for 58 yards and a landing in the excellent victory. His quarterback, Jared Goff, stole the show.

The former first general decide accomplished 25 of his 33 makes an attempt for 320 yards with three touchdowns.

Payne, 28, was chosen in the first spherical of the 2018 NFL Draft by Washington from the University of Alabama. The imposing defensive sort out was a PFWA All-Rookie choice and secured a Pro Bowl spot in 2022 after recording 11.5 sacks.

The NFL was unequivocal in its assertion concerning his suspension. “During the second quarter, Payne was disqualified for striking Detroit’s Amon-Ra St. Brown, a violation of Rule 12, Section 3, Article 1, which applies to ‘any act which is contrary to the generally understood principles of sportsmanship,’ including ‘throwing a punch, or a forearm,’ and Rule 12, Section 2, Article 14(d), which prohibits ‘striking, swinging at, or clubbing the head or neck of an opponent with the wrist(s), arm(s), elbow(s), or hand(s),'” it read.

“Under the Collective Bargaining Agreement, Payne may appeal the suspension. Any appeal will be heard and decided upon by either Derrick Brooks, Ramon Foster, or Jordy Nelson, the hearing officers jointly appointed and compensated by the NFL and NFLPA to decide appeals of on-field player discipline.”