Cleveland Browns Mack Wilson not fined for tackle on Patrick Mahomes

Cleveland Browns linebacker Mack Wilson is not going to be fined for his sort out of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes throughout final weekend’s Divisional Spherical playoff sport at Arrowhead Stadium.

Whereas the sort out knocked Mahomes out of the sport with 7:27 remaining within the third quarter, the officers didn’t flag Wilson and the league workplace confirmed that call by not hitting Wilson with a high quality.

Mahomes landed within the league-mandated concussion protocol, which led to a number of days of angst from Chiefs followers, together with Mahomes’ mom, Randi, however quite a few replays confirmed that it was a authorized hit.

Wilson’s sort out was not even probably the most controversial play of the sport, after all. That honor goes to Kansas Metropolis security Daniel Sorensen’s helmet-to-helmet hit on Cleveland extensive receiver Rashard Higgins close to the tip of the primary half.

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Sorensen’s hit induced Higgins to fumble as he reached the soccer towards the tip zone on the finish of a 25-yard cross reception. The ball went out of the tip zone for a touchback, denying the Browns a landing in a sport they’d finally lose by 5 factors.

Moderately than calling a transparent penalty on Sorensen, which might have overturned the fumble and given Cleveland the ball on the one-yard line, the officers noticed nothing improper with what Sorensen did and declined to throw a flag for unlawful use of the helmet.

Moderately unsurprisingly, Sorensen was not fined for the hit as league officers got here to the conclusion that Sorensen gave the impression to be “turning his head to make use of his shoulder to make contact with Higgins,” and the helmet-to-helmet shot gave the impression to be “incidental,” according to cleveland.com’s Mary Kay Cabot.