Appeal for $50k by Saints’ Cameron Jordan after he was accused of inflicting an injury.
New Orleans defensive end Cameron Jordan’s offseason already started, but he still managed to get one more win on Thursday. After a successful appeal, the judge ruled that he would not have to pay the penalty. $50,000 the NFL fined him for allegedly faking an injury, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported on Thursday.
Jordan spoke ESPN’s Katherin Terrell He felt that the league had questioned his integrity. “name’s low-key been slandered” He was accused of inflicting an injury to such an official position.
He was pretty active on Twitter after receiving the fine, saying that the NFL’s disciplinary procedures should be “public knowledge.” Now, he seems to be quietly enjoying the vindication of a successful appeal.
After he suffered an injury in the fourth quarter of Week 13’s loss to Tampa Bay, the Buccaneers had to stop play and set up at fourth-and-10.
The NFL issued $550,000 in fines to the Saints for the incident. This included $350,000 for the team, $100,000 each for Dennis Allen as head coach and $50,000 each for Ryan Nielsen as defensive line coach.
While Jordan reportedly won the appeal and won’t have to pay the $50,000, it’s unclear if the other fines still stand since the proceedings are different for athletes, coaches and teams.
One might have assumed that all of the fines would be null and void after Jordan’s injury was later proved by an MRI to be a mid-foot sprains, but the NFL has shown in the past that it’s serious about managing fake injuries.
“The fact that I have to go through an appeal is almost funny in itself,” Jordan said, via ESPN. “If anything, the league should look like “Hey, call-in and be like there were an actual” [injury] That’s all there is to it. However, the fines amount to almost half a million dollars, so you will need an appeal process.”
The league reportedly sent a memo to all teams in December warning against “deliberate actions to delay the game.” This is something that the league has done in previous seasons after observing “multiple instances of clubs making a deliberate attempt to stop play unnecessarily this season.”
After Jordan and the Saints were both fined, the league also issued Cincinnati defensive player Jessie Bates III and $500,000 to the Bengals. This was after Bates was criticised for appearing to fake injury. These fines appear to be still in effect.