NFL Suspends Oakland Raider Vontaze Burfict For Rest Of Season Over Head-To-Head Hit

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NFL Suspends Oakland Raider Vontaze Burfict For Rest Of Season Over Head-To-Head Hit

The NFL is suspending Oakland Raiders linebacker Vontaze Burfict without pay for the rest of the 2019 season, after Burfict lowered his head to make helmet-to-helmet contact during a tackle this weekend.

"The discipline marks the longest punishment ever handed down for an on-field act in NFL history," NFL.com says in regard to Burfict, who has repeatedly violated the league's unnecessary roughness rules.

Burfict was ejected Sunday after his hit on Indianapolis Colts tight end Jack Doyle, who had just caught a pass in the middle of the field and was partly on the ground when the linebacker lowered the crown of his helmet and plowed into Doyle's head. A suspension seemed certain — but on Monday, the NFL said it has seen enough of Burfict this year.

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/30/765784038/nfl-suspends-oakland-raider-vontaze-burfict-for-rest-of-season-over-head-to-head

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