Steelers receiver Eli Rogers was penalized for an illegal blindside block on Sunday, and now he’s paying for it.
Rogers was fined $24,309 for the block, which drew a 15-yard penalty in the Steelers’ win over the Dolphins.
The $24,309 amount is a standard fine for a blindside block, which the NFL has tried to crack down on in recent years.
All players on the Steelers were paid $27,000 for wild card week, so Rogers’ fine represents almost his entire pre-tax income for the game. That’s also almost exactly what Rogers makes per week of the regular season, when his base salary is $450,000. However, the NFL has an appeals process that allows players to argue that a fine is excessive if it is greater than 25 percent of his weekly pay. So Rogers may be able to get the fine reduced to about $6,000, which would be about 25 percent of his weekly paychecks.
