Cleveland Browns, Steelers fined over $2 million total for brawl

Following the appeals hearings, the Cleveland Browns and Pittsburgh Steelers were dealt an astronomical total of fines for their actions in “the Brawl.”

Fines have been handed out by the NFL to individual players, as well as the Cleveland Browns and Pittsburgh Steelers organizations for their part in the “The Brawl” at the end of their Thursday Night Football game November 14.

A staggering 33 players were fined, headlined by Myles Garrett. Garrett was directly fined $45,623 for his on-field actions and also suspended without pay, so assuming the suspension lasts for six games, that accounts for $1,139,912. That is by far the largest impact.

Several players were fined for coming on the field, which amounted to $3,507 per violation. Mason Rudolph was fined but not suspended for his role in the fight. Maurkice Pouncey of the Steelers had his suspension reduced from three games to two, so he loses two game checks. Larry Ogunjobi was not fined, but was still suspended one game.

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All told, “The Brawl” resulted in $732,432 worth of fines, give or take a few dollars. That does not include the lost wages of Garrett, Ogunjobi and Pouncey.

But wait, that is not all. There were other fines handed out for misdeeds that had nothing to do with “The Brawl.”

Browns Safety Damarious Randall was fined $28,075 for a helmet-to-helmet hit on Pittsburgh wide receiver Diontae Johnson that left Johnson on national TV with blood coming out of his ear. Randall was ejected from the game for the hit.

Greedy Williams was caught on camera laughing, while Randall was almost playfully protesting his innocence by jumping up and down, imploring the officials to regard his actions as an accident. That hit on Johnson was perhaps the event that fired angry emotions that would later go out of control.

Williams was also fined $28,075 for a helmet-to-helmet hit on JuJu Smith-Schuster. The replay angle on that play was not very good. This observer could not tell whether it was WIlliams or Morgan Burnett who did the main damage. However, Burnett was not fined, and in any case it did not seem as blatant as the Johnson hit, as three Browns were converging on Smith-Schuster and some sort of collision seemed to be unavoidable.

Defensive end Chad Thomas was also fined $21,056 for roughing the passer.

For the Steelers, linebacker Ola Adeniyi was fined $28,075 for lowering the head during a punt. That little trick left Adeniyi with a concussion.

That is a total of four separate events that led to fines in addition to “The Brawl.” In all, those five incidents created fines of totaling $2,084,685. The results are compiled in the table.

Overall, the Browns went out of control early, tensions escalated and finally boiled over at the end of the game.

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Readers are invited to express their opinions in the comments section on the following question: Is this the low point? Or will the Browns get in even worse trouble in the remaining games? Can it get even worse?

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