SEPTEMBER 22: Hart’s appeal was unsuccessful. The eighth-year offensive lineman will serve his one-game suspension.
SEPTEMBER 21: Hart’s post-game altercation was with Titans defensive tackle Jeffery Simmons, reports Aaron Wilson of ProFootballNetwork.com (on Twitter). During Hart’s appeal hearing today, it was alleged that Simmons spit on Hart, leading to the skirmish.
During altercation postgame with Simmons, Hart inadvertently made contact with a Titans assistant coach, leading to the one-game suspension levied by NFL vice president of operations Jon Runyan.
SEPTEMBER 19: The NFL handed Bills tackle Bobby Hart a one-game suspension Tuesday. A fight following the Bills’ Monday-night win over the Titans led to this ban.
NFL VP of football operations Jon Runyan‘s suspension letter to Hart indicates the veteran lineman threw a punch at a Titans player postgame. The punch struck a Tennessee coach in the head. This unnamed Titans assistant coach had attempted to separate the players.
Hart, 28, is in his second season with the Bills, but the former starter spent time with the Titans last year. In between Bills stays, Hart played in three games with the Titans.
The Bills signed Hart in March 2021, but he did not make their 53-man roster and landed on the Dolphins’ practice squad. Soon after, Hart re-signed with the Bills via a practice squad deal. He ended up with the Titans after the team poached him off Buffalo’s P-squad in October. After Tennessee demoted Hart to its P-squad, Buffalo made the same transaction by signing Hart to its active roster in November. The Bills circled back to Hart in free agency earlier this year.
A former seventh-round pick, Hart has done well for himself by making it into an eighth NFL season. The Florida State product was a multiyear right tackle starter for the Giants and Bengals. He has settled in as a backup. Monday night’s blowout led to Hart seeing some fourth-quarter snaps. Hart made one Titans start in 2021.
Maybe the NFL needs a new man as VPof Football Operations? Jon Runyan isn’t your man. His rulings are not harsh enough on these two players committing assault on other players. One running off the sidelines and assaulting a player on the field. The other attacking a player after the game. Runyan you need to really punish these players and quit treating them above the law and special. Maybe Runyan you need to punished and FIRED from your job. Suspend atleast 6 games for these actions. Let these players get punished like everyday people in the world. The NFL needs man up on this and start protecting women in this world.
Not sure if you’re trolling but I can’t disagree more
Tommy Boyce was not suspended.
Dude, Evans running on a FOOTBALL field to PUSH someone to the ground is ASSAULT in your eyes?! You got a lot of 5th and 6th place trophies for participation didn’t you?
I didn’t see it but by the law that is assault. Unless he never touched him.
Not for nothing, tackling someone is also assault.
If he tackled him after the game yes it is assault. If you want to get petty and he tackled him during a dead ball that is assault also. You can also verbally assault someone.
He’s a Bengals fan I assume but he never calls for any Bengal to be suspended
Not the first time Simmons has been accused of spitting on someone. Marshal Yanda said he spat on him too