The NFL has fined Baltimore Ravens linebacker Roquan Smith $16,833 for his tackle on Chris Godwin that ended up dislocating ...
The hip-drop tackle is hard to officiate. Vincent said players have made about 22 questionable tackles. Texans running back Joe Mixon is a loud critic of officials not penalizing offenders after ...
Houston running back Joe Mixon missed three games earlier this year after he was the victim of the tackle. Last year the NFL saw between one-to-two hip-drop tackles per week, and the pace is the ...
The hip-drop tackle is hard to officiate. Vincent said players have made about 22 questionable tackles. Texans running back Joe Mixon is a loud critic of officials not penalizing offenders after he ...
This isn't the only hip drop tackle to take place this season. Back in Week 2, Houston Texans running back Joe Mixon suffered an ankle injury on a hip drop tackle by Chicago Bears linebacker T.J ...
So why is Smith suddenly the face of this issue? Let’s not forget about T.J. Edwards’ hip drop tackle on Texans running back Joe Mixon in Week 2. Mixon missed three games with an ankle injury ...
Per both Mixon and Texans head coach DeMeco Ryans, the injury was no unfortunate accident. Both claimed the injury was the result of a "hip-drop’ tackle", a tackling technique recently outlawed ...
In the third quarter of a 19-13 victory over Chicago, Mixon was felled by Bears’ linebacker T.J. Edwards via a hip-drop tackle. That was something that was banned by the league this offseason.
His injury is one of the more high-profile ones to potentially be grouped under the new hip-drop tackle ban. In Week 2, Houston Texans running back Joe Mixon suffered a high ankle sprain that ...
(Joe Mixon also suffered an injury earlier this ... If the league review finds that it was a hip-drop tackle, though, Smith will be subject to a league-imposed fine. The league said last week ...
Mixon is now in the range for a full recovery ... Joe is out because of that, the hip drop tackle, and the NFL is doing a great job of communicating for an entire league of how we want to tackle ...