Cardinals fine four players, most in NFL, including Kyzir White for hitting Sam Howell

Cardinals linebacker Kyzir White received the NFL’s largest fine in Week One for a brutal hit on Commanders quarterback Sam Howell.

In the first quarter of Sunday’s game, White leveled Howell with a helmet-to-helmet hit, and the NFL announced today that White was fined $18,056 for unnecessary roughness. It was the maximum fine for a player for any individual act in the first week of the season, although three players lost more money than White because they were fined for two separate infractions.

White’s hit sparked a fight involving many players and also saw one of the referees fall to the bench.

The Cardinals had a league-high four players fined in Week One. Also fined were Paris Johnson ($10,927), Rondale Moore ($10,491) and K’Von Wallace ($5,611).