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NFL Warns Defenders on Punch-Outs, Citing Jack Campbell, as Lions Push Back

Detroit’s locker room rallies as league enforcement becomes the week’s defining issue.

Overview

  • Lions coaches say a league memo used Jack Campbell clips to caution that punches must target the ball, not the ball-carrier.
  • Campbell told reporters he will keep attempting punch-outs despite the warning, calling the technique part of his play.
  • Safety Brian Branch’s one-game suspension for striking JuJu Smith-Schuster stands after an appeal was denied, ruling him out for the next game.
  • NFL Films deleted a critical Turning Point segment on Branch after backlash, and narrator Louis Riddick issued a public apology.
  • The NFL fined Alex Anzalone ($12,172) and Tyler Lacy ($5,722) for unnecessary roughness from the Chiefs game, with no Chiefs appearing on the week’s fines list.