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This afternoon, NFL vice president of football operations Jon Runyan sent out a letter to the Steelers and the Bengals announcing that JuJu Smith-Schuster was suspended one game for his hit on Vontaze Burfict during last night’s Monday Night Football game.
Via ESPN
The contact you made with your opponent placed the opposing player at risk of serious injury and could have been avoided,” NFL vice president of football operations Jon Runyan said in issuing the suspension. “Your conduct following the hit fell far below the high standards of sportsmanship expected of an NFL player.”
“The Competition Committee has clearly expressed its goal of ‘eliminating flagrant hits that have no place in our game’ and has encouraged the League office to suspend offenders for egregious violations such as the one you committed last night,” Runyan said in his ruling.
Via Mike Mitchell
So now your suspended for helmet to helmet… @nfl is a joke
So gronk elbow drops a guy off the top rope like Dusty Rhodes and gets same suspension as a guy getting a penalty making a football play. Okay cool @NFL @espn @ESPNNFL can’t wait to see what you come up with next.
I’m teaming with Jerry jones Roger has to go! #MakeFootballFootballAgain
Mitchell went to clarify that he was angry with NFL players for allowing Goodell to have free regin.
My real complaint isn’t with the @nfl it’s with my fellow players. How did we agree to this cba? There is no consistency in the way we are disciplined. One week you can commit a foul and be fined the next be suspended. One week a fight is an ejection the next it’s a suspension.
— Mike Mitchell (@iammikemitchell) December 5, 2017
It really just comes down to how one is feeling at the time and that isn’t right. That isn’t really a fair process let’s do better next time. Save your 💰.
— Mike Mitchell (@iammikemitchell) December 5, 2017