NFL: Las Vegas Raiders at Kansas City Chiefs - Source: Imagn
Another week in the NFL, another week of hefty fines. The Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Los Angeles Chargers 19-17 on Dec. 8. During the game, RB Isiah Pacheco ran with the ball after catching a pass from Patrick Mahomes. A Chargers defender tried to stop him, but Pacheco lowered his shoulder and hit the defender with his helmet. Pacheco himself was soon forced out of bounds by another Chargers defender.
Many Chargers fans thought that a flag would be thrown at the play, but it did not come. However, on Saturday Isiah Pacheco received a notice which said that he had to shell out $45,020 for "unnecessary roughness", even though no such penalty was called during the actual game.
3x Defensive Player of the Year and former Houston Texans player, JJ Watt, took to X (formerly, Twitter) to react to the news on Saturday. He took a dig at the NFL and said that the league paid its players to play football, but when they did, it took money out of their hands for doing exactly what they had been asked to do.
