FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- The Green Bay Packers had been using safety Jermaine Whitehead as an inside linebacker in some of their defense packages but that option was taken away because he was ejected late in the second quarter of Sunday night's game against the New England Patriots.
White slapped Patriots center David Andrews in the helmet at the end of a 10-yard run by New England's Cordarrelle Patterson with 3:06 left in the first half.
Referee Brad Allen threw out Whitehead but it was unclear if he did so with consult of the NFL's head of officiating, Al Riveron.