Brisbane pair Payne Haas and Ezra Mam have both been charged by the NRL's match-review committee for hip-drop tackles in Brisbane's 26-16 win over Parramatta on Friday night.
As the league continues to grapple with the controversial tackle, the Broncos duo have been hit with grade 2 dangerous contact charges.
They will both miss one game with an early guilty plea or two if they fight the charge and lose.
Eels forward J'Maine Hopgood was charged with a grade 1 offence and escaped with a fine.
It comes as Eels coach Brad Arthur has called out inconsistencies in the NRL's penalising of hip-drop tackles after prop Regan Campbell-Gillard suffered a serious injury in Darwin on Friday night.
Campbell-Gillard was tackled from behind by Haas in the second half of the Eels' 26-16 defeat to Brisbane, in what appeared to be a classic hip-drop tackle.
Haas swung himself onto the back legs of Campbell-Gillard as the Eels prop powered towards the line, causing him to fall awkwardly and leave the field injured.
However, the Bunker — having earlier ruled that Hopwood and Mam be placed on report and sent to the sin-bin for similar tackles — said there was no need for further action on field.
"I'm not an expert on hip drops, but to me all three of them looked pretty similar," Arthur said in his post-match press conference.
"I'm not sure which one has the worst result.
"If their feet are off the ground, and that's what happened …
"I didn't know J'maine's was [a hip drop] at the start … the one at the end [was] similar to the other two."
Campbell-Gillard is now set for an extended stint on the sideline with a serious groin injury.
The hip drop is defined by the NRL as a tackle in which the tackling player holds on to their opponent and then jumps off the ground, landing on the lower legs of the player they are trying to tackle.
Hopwood was pinged early in the second half when making a tackle on Cory Paix close to the try line.
Mam was then pinged for dragging down Matt Doorey after being pulled forward by the Eels' second-row forward as he charged through the line.
Haas's tackle came hot on the heels of Mam's sin-binning, and would have left the Broncos down two players defending a 26-12 lead with 20 minutes to go.
Campbell-Gillard was later shown struggling to move in the sheds and was taken to hospital after the match.
Arthur said if Haas was guilty of a hip drop, he should be charged.
"That's not my call. I'm not the expert on hip drops and if the tackle is a hip drop … yeah, he should be charged," he said.
"The people that decide that, they'll have to live with the decision that they make.
"But I do know that we're going to be missing Reg [Campbell-Gillard] for some time and my untrained eye, looking at all three tackles, they looked pretty similar to me."
The pending suspension for Haas would be a blow to the 7-1 Broncos, with the Blues prop running for 212 metres — including 77 post-contact — and making seven offloads in the victory.
Coach Kevin Walters said Haas was "playing football that you can really build a team around. He's gold."
Walters said he "didn't see anything too dramatic" with the tackle and said no player did that sort of tackle deliberately — although he conceded that players will do anything to stop the opposition scoring.
"We'll let the people that need to look after that stuff look after it," he said.
"It's a tackle that's crept into the game. It's unfortunate if there are some, but we'll let the officials adjudicate and we'll keep coaching and the boys will keep playing.
"There's no player that likes making that tackle.
"Everyone's aware of it and we as coaches and the players are trying to avoid that sort of situation.
"But [when you are] on your [try] line, game on the line, you've gotta stop them from scoring and that's where both of the incidents happened. That's desperate."
