The New York Giants have been fined $200,000, head coach Brian Daboll $100,000 and running back Cam Skattebo $15,000 for conduct detrimental to the league after Daboll and Skattebo violated in the league’s concussion protocol in a Week 6 game against the Philadelphia Eagles at MetLife Stadium.
Daboll entered the medical tent and spoke with quarterback Jaxson Dart while Dart was being evaluated for a concussion in the third quarter of a game the Giants eventually won, 34-17. Skattebo also entered the tent.
In a joint NFL-NFLPA statement, the league said Daboll and Skattebo had entered the tent while Dart’s evaluation was ongoing, “creating the perception that they were interfering with Dart’s exam.”
The statement also said “their conduct was inconsistent with and demonstrated a disregard for the concussion protocol’s requirements and therefore constituted a violation.”
The league and NFLPA did, though, conclude that “the team medical staff and unaffiliated medical providers properly followed all of the steps required by the collectively bargained and administered concussion protocol in their evaluation of Mr. Dart.”
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