{"id":356247,"date":"2025-09-10T07:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T07:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/356247\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T07:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T07:09:10","slug":"nfls-puzzling-jalen-carter-decision-is-bad-news-for-chiefs-in-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/356247\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL&#8217;s puzzling Jalen Carter decision is bad news for Chiefs in Week 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEWS: The NFL has fined Jalen Carter $57,222, equivalent to one game check, for spitting on Cowboys QB Dak Prescott.<\/p>\n<p>Carter will not be suspended. The Eagles travel to Kansas City this week to take on the Chiefs in a Super Bowl rematch. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ps4S5Kc0YX\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Ps4S5Kc0YX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dianna Russini (@DMRussini) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DMRussini\/status\/1965505851239850388?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 9, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, September 9, news broke that Philadelphia Eagles pass-rusher Jalen Carter would be eligible to play against the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/kansas-city-chiefs\/339\" data-autotag=\"e91367c2-d7b8-4bec-9359-95947acd6b0e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kansas City Chiefs<\/a> in Week 2 after retroactively serving a what was expected to be a one-game suspension for a spitting incident involving Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott.<\/p>\n<p>Carter, who was ejected on the first play of Philadelphia&#8217;s season-opener against Dallas after expectorating on Prescott, will pay a $57,222 fine \u2014 equivalent to one of the former Georgia Bulldog&#8217;s game checks.<\/p>\n<p>Fans and pundits speculated about Carter&#8217;s disposition for the Eagles&#8217; Week 2 matchup against Kansas City, and were surprised that the NFL would let him off with such a lenient punishment.<\/p>\n<p>The league&#8217;s reasoning for the baffling Carter decision seems to be predicated on the idea that the Eagles star had functionally served his suspension after missing the lion&#8217;s share of Philadelphia&#8217;s Week 1 contest against the Cowboys.<\/p>\n<p>One has to wonder what the reaction to such a settlement would be in a hypothetical scenario that would see a similar saga transpire in the Chiefs&#8217; favor.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS: The NFL has fined Jalen Carter $57,222, equivalent to one game check, for spitting on Cowboys QB&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2063],"tags":[247,265,7928,346,739,324,1365,1370,7,20842,1294,476,805,118,110,2438,2437,248,267,330,88,6,35196,245,338,1366,326,25414,1602,1982,9,266,1980],"class_list":{"0":"post-356247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-carter","11":"tag-chiefs","12":"tag-city","13":"tag-conference","14":"tag-dak","15":"tag-dak-prescott","16":"tag-football","17":"tag-hub","18":"tag-jalen","19":"tag-jalen-carter","20":"tag-kansas","21":"tag-kansas-city","22":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","23":"tag-kansascity","24":"tag-kansascitychiefs","25":"tag-national","26":"tag-national-sports","27":"tag-negative","28":"tag-news","29":"tag-nfl","30":"tag-nfl-hub","31":"tag-overall","32":"tag-overall-negative","33":"tag-prescott","34":"tag-sec","35":"tag-sec-conference-football","36":"tag-smg","37":"tag-smg-timely","38":"tag-sports","39":"tag-sports-news","40":"tag-timely"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115178750948800204","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}