Before you settled into your Barcalounger Sunday, two more NFL players had been ejected from games. And then, before the early games were complete, another player had been disqualified.
Add it all up, and NFL officials already have ejected more than twice the number of players as they did during all 17 weeks of the 2015 regular season. The total of 10 disqualifications puts them on pace to set at least a 15-year high and continues a two-pronged effort by the league to restrain what it considers to be unsportsmanlike player behavior.
NFL Ejections Per Season
Year | Ejections |
---|---|
2016 | 9* |
2015 | 4 |
2014 | 13 |
2013 | 6 |
2012 | 7 |
2011 | 8 |
2010 | 5 |
*Through early Week 9 games |
As the chart shows, NFL ejections typically have remained in single digits for a full season.