ESPN: NFL suspends Steelers safety for the rest of the season after illegal hit

New York: Damontae Kazee, a safety for the Pittsburgh Steelers, was suspended by the NFL without pay for the remainder of the season for what the league called “repeated violations” of player safety rules.

Kazee will miss Pittsburgh’s final three regular-season games and any potential playoff games if the Steelers (7-7) advance to the postseason as a result of the decision made on Monday by NFL Vice President of Football Operations Jon Runyan.

Kazee was catapulted from Pittsburgh’s 30-13 misfortune to Indianapolis on Saturday subsequent to hitting jumping Foals wide beneficiary Michael Pittman Jr. in the subsequent quarter. Kazee made contact with Pittman’s head as he laid out to try to catch a pass. Pittman left the game and went into the blackout convention.

Runyan wrote in a letter to Kazee that unlawful contact with Pittman “might have been kept away from.” Runyan highlighted Kazee’s rehashed infringement of security rules as one of the main thrusts behind the suspension.
This season, the league has fined Kazee, a veteran of seven years, nearly a dozen times. He will relinquish around $208,000 in game actually takes a look at by missing Pittsburgh’s last three games.
Steelers mentor Mike Tomlin expressed Monday before the NFL reported Kazee’s suspension that he wouldn’t conjecture on any expected discipline, saying it “doesn’t help me, help (Kazee) or football itself.”

The suspension implies Pittsburgh will be without both of its beginning protections against the Bengals. Due to a knee injury, Minkah Fitzpatrick is already out.

Kazee can pursue the choice to hearing officials Derrick Streams or James Whip, who have been selected by the NFL and NFLPA to conclude allures of on-field player discipline.