CLEVELAND (AP) — Myles Garrett is finished playing for the Cleveland Browns this season. The NFL isn't stating when the star protective end will play once more.
He was suspended for in any event the remainder of the customary season and postseason — if the Browns qualify. The class discipline Friday came hours after Garrett swung an adversary's protective cap and utilized it "as a weapon" by striking Pittsburgh quarterback Mason Rudolph in the head.
The vicious upheaval in the last seconds of Thursday's broadly broadcast game against the Steelers brought about the longest suspension for a solitary on-field infraction allied history. Tennessee's Albert Haynesworth was suspended five games in 2006.
The group's No. 1 generally speaking pick in 2017 was additionally fined an undisclosed sum. Garrett must meet with Commissioner Roger Goodell before his reestablishment is considered.
Up to that point, the protective end's profession is on hold.
In the wake of wrestling Rudolph to the ground as the Browns were finishing off an uncommon success over their opponents, Garrett ripped off the quarterback's protective cap and clobbered him over the head, setting off a fight that topped another physical game between the AFC North groups.
"I committed an awful error," Garrett said in an announcement Friday. "I lost my cool and what I did was narrow minded and unsuitable. I realize that we are on the whole answerable for our activities and I can just demonstrate my actual character through my activities pushing ahead. I need to apologize to Mason Rudolph, my colleagues, our whole association, our fans and to the NFL. I realize I must be responsible for what occurred, gain from my mix-up and I completely plan to do as such."
Rudolph, who endured a blackout before this season, stayed away from genuine damage and said after the game the assault was "weak and amateur." That notion was shared over the group and sports world.
The NFL said Garrett "abused superfluous harshness and unsportsmanlike lead rules, just as battling and evacuating an adversary's head protector and utilizing it as a weapon."
Steelers focus Maurkice Pouncey, who was attempting to isolate Garrett and Rudolph, was suspended three games without pay and furthermore fined for punching and kicking Garrett. Tans protective handle Larry Ogunjobi was suspended for one game. He pushed Rudolph to the ground from behind during the scuffle.
The suspended players have three business days to bid their punishments.
The Steelers and Browns were fined $250,000 each.
Tans mentor Freddie Kitchens met with Garrett at the group's preparation office Friday and said the 23-year-old communicated more regret.
"He comprehends that he let himself down, he let his partners down and he let his association down," Kitchens said. "We take a gander at our group as a family, and in a family, once in a while relatives commit errors. You bolster them inside and out that you can, regardless of whether it is an unfortunate slip-up. We know who Myles is as an individual. We know who Myles is and the character that Myles has, and that is under no condition what he needs to be depicted as. We will bolster him."
There was an expanding influence to Garrett's demonstration, making shame the association and the two groups.
"There is the wrong spot for that in football and that isn't intelligent of the fundamental beliefs we take a stab at as an association," Browns proprietors Dee and Jimmy Haslam said in an announcement. "We truly apologize to Mason Rudolph and the Pittsburgh Steelers."
Included Steelers President Art Rooney II: "We should consistently look after self-control, regardless of what occurs. After a hard-battled game between two rivals, it is a disgrace the game finished that way."
Rudolph's specialist, Tim Younger, said he'll investigate lawful activity against Garrett. Cleveland police say no police report or charges have been documented.
"There are numerous dangers a NFL QB accept with each snap taken on the field," Younger composed on Twitter. "Being hit on your revealed head by a protective cap being swung by a 275 lb DE isn't one of them."
The fight dominated a major 21-7 win for a Cleveland establishment only a couple of years expelled from a winless season. The Browns (4-6) have moved into the season finisher race however will presently be without their best guarded player. They are 2-0 in their division just because since alliance realignment arrangement in 2002, the last time they made the end of the season games.
This was by all account not the only terrible hit in the 135th game among Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Tans free wellbeing Damarious Randall conveyed a protective cap to-cap shot on Steelers tenderfoot collector Diontae Johnson, who left with a blackout. Randall was catapulted.
The Browns and Steelers play again in Pittsburgh on Dec. 1.
In spite of the fact that Garrett has been fined more than $50,000 this season, first for punching Tennessee tight end Delanie Walker and afterward for two late hits on New York Jets quarterback Trevor Siemian, this kind of assault was bizarre for oneself announced conservative and artist.
A month ago, Garrett didn't fight back after a fan needing a photo punched him in the face while halted in rush hour gridlock downtown.
The loss of Garrett is an overwhelming hit to Cleveland's barrier. He's one of the group's edge rushers and the Browns are now missing end Olivier Vernon, who missed his second game Thursday with knee damage.
Be that as it may, past the football, the Browns have made a go to their picture.
They have been one of the alliance's most punished groups under Kitchens, and the Garrett scene came only a couple of hours after the group discharged beset wide beneficiary Antonio Callaway, who was suspended by the association for another infringement of the substance misuse approach.
Further, the Browns as of late discharged wellbeing Jermaine Whitehead after he posted undermining messages on Twitter following a misfortune. Also, the Browns were scrutinized for marking running back Kareem Hunt, who was suspended for eight games this season for his activities off-field direct while with Kansas City. In one case, he pushed and kicked a lady.
Kitchens needs his group to gain from what occurred.
"We are continually looking for approaches to improve the manner in which we are seen as an association, as a mentor and as a player," he said. "Particularly in circumstances such as this, obviously. Myles wears the Cleveland Brown pullover so we are all in it together."
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