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Report: NFL Reduces Redskins S Brandon Meriweather’s Suspension To One Game

October 23, 2013

Update:

Ian Rapoport reports that the NFL has reduced Redskins S Brandon Meriweather’s two-game suspension to one game without pay.

Meriweather’s case was heard by officer Ted Cottrell

Meriweather’s suspension will cost him $70,588 of his $1.2 million base salary for the 2013 season. This is just another example of the NFL reducing the initial sentence handed out to a player.

Last year, Ed Reed has his suspension reduced to no games and the same happened with Buccaneers S Dashon Goldson earlier this year.

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#Redskins S Brandon Meriweather has been suspended 2 games by @NFL for “repeat violations” and hits to the head. Had 2 Sunday.

— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) October 21, 2013

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ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports that the NFL is expected to suspend Redskins S Brandon Meriweather for one to two games.

Schefter adds that the exact discipline still is being decided.

Meriweather has already received a $42,000 fine this season for a hit on Packers rookie RB Eddie Lacy. On top of that, Meriweather has received fines of $45,000 in 2011 and another $50,000 for a hit in 2010, so it’s to the point where a suspension is likely the next course of action from the league.

Meriweather was flagged for personal foul after he collided with Bears WR Alshon Jeffery on a helment-to-helmet.

“I feel every hit I took was a legal hit,” he said, via ESPN.com. “I wasn’t trying to be dirty. I wasn’t trying to hurt nobody. I didn’t lead with, lunge with my head. I used my shoulders like they told me to do.”