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The NFL is fining the Pittsburgh Steelers and head coach Mike Tomlin for an incident weeks ago. According to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network, the league has given the team a $75,000 fine and the coach a $25,000 fine for not accurately listing quarterback Ben Roethlisberger on the practice injury report before their Week 2 matchup with the Seattle Seahawks.
Roethlisberger did not play in the second half of the Seahawks game due to an elbow injury on his throwing arm, which would ultimately end his season prematurely. After going on the injured reserve, teammates mentioned that he had been injured before the game.
“I guess right after the New England game expressing some pain, but that was the first I had heard,” said Mason Rudolph on Sept. 17 on Roethlisberger's injury, via Hunter Homisteck of DKPittsburghSports.com. “You’d have to ask him or Coach Tomlin if it was pre-existing before that.”
The NFL mandates that a team list a player's injury on the injury report heading into the week's matchup. The Steelers did not due so, and, ultimately, the league came down with their hammer. The timing of the fine is rather interesting; however, as them not reporting of Roethlisberger's injury isn't quite a new development.
Nonetheless, Roethlisberger is done for the season. While that is going on, both the organization's and head coach's bank accounts have a little bit fewer digits in them. Rudolph, who is in his second year, is now the starter in Pittsburgh.
