SEPTEMBER 20: Evans is appealing the suspension, Adam Schefter of ESPN.com tweets. The appeal will be heard Tuesday. Evans’ 2017 appeal did not lead to an overturned suspension. Considering the similarities between the 2017 incident that prompted a ban and Sunday’s Lattimore shove, Evans seeing this suspension vacated would surprise.
SEPTEMBER 19: The fallout from yesterday’s brawl in the Buccaneers-Saints game has begun. Tampa Bay receiver Mike Evans has been given a one-game suspension for his role in the altercation, the NFL announced on Monday. 
The ban was handed down by VP of football operations Jon Runyan; in a letter to Evans, he wrote in part, “Your aggressive conduct could have caused serious injury to your opponent and clearly does not reflect the high standards of sportsmanship expected of a professional.”
This marks the second time that the 29-year-old has been suspended. He was also banned for one game in 2017 after a similar incident involving he and Saints cornerback Marshon Lattimore, a pair which have a long history with one another within the broader Buccaneers-Saints rivalry. Both Lattimore and Evans were ejected from yesterday’s game, but the latter expressed confidence that he would not be facing supplemental discipline.
“That was terrible – [in] 2017 I didn’t even get ejected and that was really a cheap shot,” Evans said after the game, via ESPN’s Katherine Terrell and Jenna Laine. “This wasn’t. [Lattimore] punched my teammate in the face and I just pushed him to the ground.”
Evans has the option of appealing the suspension, and is expected to do so, reports ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler (Twitter link). If the ban is upheld, he will lose just over $62K in salary, a by-product of his 2022 base salary being reduced to the league minimum. That would also leave the Buccaneers even more shorthanded at the position, though, as fellow starters Chris Godwin and Julio Jones were sidelined due to injuries yesterday.
No other suspensions have been levied, but fines affecting players on both teams are likely to be announced later this week, per Tom Pelissero of NFL Network (Twitter link). While the league continues to sort through the aftermath of yesterday’s events, attention will turn to Evans’ status as the Buccaneers prepare to play the Packers.
ha idiot, letting down brady and his team when they need him most
He took their top CB out of the game when it was 3-3 and their other starting CB was hurt so they were down to reserves after that. And then Brady feasts. He really let them down alright….
So basically he played dirty in order to win.
Gotta do what you gotta do to win. They’ll meet again too.
Bwady skates again. He escalated all of that and should have faced suspension, but he uses his big mouth and hides behind teammates.
That’s because his teammates are stupid enough to let his mouth get them into trouble.
I guess Mike didn’t see Fournette start the whole thing by shoving Lattimore from behind.
Madman,
Evidently, you don’t know much about football! So STFU before you make yourself look more stupid!
He made himself look stupid a lonnnnnnnggggg time ago with his horrible takes. Nothing to see here folks
This will get overturned on appeal. That wasn’t suspension worthy.
Ironic it’s Jon Runyon handing out discipline for something he’s probably done numerous time in his career to defend his QB.
Everybody that participated should get a one game suspension, i.e., use the NHL rule about a third party joining a fight…
1 game? Make it 5 and fine them their game checks for those games. You really want it to stop, make the penalty have some teeth.
As this occurred in a week 2 game, I have to assume that this is a carryover from some bad blood developed between these teams last season. It’s nice to see that division rivalries still mean something but from a discipline standpoint it doesn’t reflect too well on the coaches.
Read the article. It said him and Lattimore have beef from 2017. This was nothing new
I’m thinking I would had suspended him for a year without pay or bonuses and made him receive counseling. He attacked when he was on the sidelines. He came on the field of play to ATTACK the New Orleans player and hurt him. This was plan out assault! Should receive the max sentence. These players are not above the law. Let Evan get a real job and work for a living. Hoping the New Orleans player takes him to court and sues him for the assault. These players thinking they’re above law makes me sick. What happened to the code of Conduct? Doing this on live TV? One game? Evans reminds me of another player named D.Watson thinking they are special and above the law!
By your logic what should happen to Kamara? How about Watson? Apparently you’ve never played a team sport, he saw his teammate get punched so he rushed in.
This has to be one of the worst takes I’ve seen in this website
Yeah, but he didn’t see his teammate Fournette start the physical altercation or hear Brady start it with his mouth.
This is why you don’t just fly off the handle and act like an animal. Lattimore didn’t start this.
I’ve played plenty of team sports and you don’t support the village idiot. That’s why I won’t support you and your post.
I noticed that you like everyone suspended for a long time. How many games do you want Chase getting suspended for for giving the double bird? That’s gotta be 6 games according to your philosophy
Mike Evans was on one of the sports talk circuit and he explained how all of this would playout and that he would not actually serve a suspension.
Remember when players were constantly penalized for tossing the ball in the wrong direction, celebrating a sack with a karate kick, or running into the end zone backwards? Guess those taunting penalties were working after all?
Remember when men were men and sheep were scared? Brownsbacker9 remembers. He keeps the old ways alive and well.
If anyone would know……..
Brownsbacker would.
Wait I thought you were Brownsbacker.
And as I told you a billion times already, I’m not. Go figure….
Haha
Now if you appeal a suspension, thus delaying your punishment and you play in a game you were supposed to miss, and you lose your appeal, you miss the number of games you played in while appealing the ban PLUS the game(s) you were originally banned for. You also miss all of those paychecks, and owe the NFL the money from the games you played in.
Maybe then players would take this stuff seriously.
Appeals almost always come within a day or two of the suspension coming down. A player has absolutely no control over how long the NFL takes to decide if the appeal has validity or not. He should not be penalized if the NFL drags their feet on making a decision, which more often than not, they tend to do.
Sure they should. They know the process when they appeal. Maybe if they don’t like the appeal process they might decide to behave themselves and not act like thugs on the field.
Unfortunately, knowing the process provides no protection at all from Goodell’s arbitrary decision rulings and the NFLs frequent hypocrisy.
I’m sorry, I think you’ve mistaken me for a person that cares about and for the NFL. I want it to burn down. So any help I can be to that end…
You’re a weird dude aren’t you?
Coming from a guy that stalks my posts and imagines I am somebody I’m not.
I don’t stalk your posts. No politics posted pro Watson comments for months. He was brownsbacker. That kinda makes you brownsbacker. Both spellings are exactly the same so you both couldn’t have the same username. You act just like him too. A sarcastic know it all.
I was No politics first. Brownsbacker changed his name to No Polotics, and then changed it to an alternative spelling of my name to make it look like the same person. I, the real No politics, dislike DeShaun Watson, the Browns, and the NFL.
I am sarcastic and while I don’t know everything, I know more than you do. That’s why you keep stalking me and responding. I bet you can’t help yourself and will respond to this.
Yes, act like sexual predator thugs off the field, wait a year and a half for the discipline and get rewarded with a record breaking contract.
I don’t think Deshaun should ever play football again and the Browns should be fined for making that deal and structuring it the way they did, essentially writing off the first year knowing he would get suspended.
You don’t think much, period! Now go pick up the Pizza Hut! I NEED TO EAT!
Nice try mookie stinks.
You post SO much, but you never really say anything.
That’s because this is called typing and not speaking.
Just stop posting so often, everyone is sick of it.
You speak for everyone? I doubt it, because you don’t even do a good job of representing yourself. My posts get plenty of likes. Even if other people were sick and tired of my posts, I would still make them. Why? Because I can. I don’t come here to make friends or be liked. Maybe you do because, well, you’re you. What else do you have?