Sherrod Martin Fined $40K for Hit

by Ray Glier

Filed under: Panthers, NFC South

So Tennessee's Cortland Finnegan and Houston's Andre Johnson can get into a full scale brawl on the field where one punch from Johnson to the back of Finnegan's head could have actually resulted in a serious injury and they get a $25,000 fine. Safety Sherrod Martin of the Carolina Panthers, on the other hand, was fined $40,000 by the NFL on Wednesday for a helmet-to-helmet hit on Browns tight end Evan Moore.

Martin certainly had some extra tagged on to the fine because it was his second infraction of the season. He was fined $5,000 after a Week 1 hit on the Giants' Kevin Boss.

"I was going for the ball first and he was on his way down," Martin told reporters after the game. "I don't know what more they want me to do. I'm trying to make a tackle and I'm going down and he's going down."

 

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