St. Brown was fined $43,709 for a block thrown against the Chicago Bears in his team’s Week 11 win, drawing some strong pushback from across the NFL. Brown spoke out about the fine this week, saying he planned to appeal to the league to lower the amount.
It is what it is. It is a lot of money,” he said, via SI.com. “I guess, you know, the way I block wasn’t legal. They said it was forceful contact to the head, so I guess I’ve just got to do better.”
But St. Brown added that it was difficult for players to stay completely within the rules, adding that he planned to file an appeal on the amount of his fine.
mean, yeah, I think so. At the end of the day, I feel like there’s only so much we can do as players,” St. Brown said. “I mean, we can speak up about it, but there’s still rules that have to be followed in the game and we’ve got to try our best to follow those. But, I mean, I don’t know, I feel like $43,000 for what I did was quite a lot. I’m gonna appeal it. We’ll see how it goes.”it’
