The NFL has told us through its actions what Kansas City Chiefs fans already knew — Jacksonville Jaguars S Andre Cisco’s hit on WR JuJu Smith-Schuster should have been penalized.
The hit knocked Smith-Schuster out of the game with a concussion and the referee’s picked up the flag they’d thrown on the play, citing “shoulder-to-shoulder” contact on the hit. The league office seems to have disagreed with that assessment from Brad Rogers’ officiating crew. While they can’t go back and change the no-call, they did what they could. That is to issue a $6K fine to Cisco for unnecessary roughness according to both ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler and NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero.
