New Orleans Saints owner Gayle Benson wrote NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to request that the fines for an alleged fake injury by Cameron Jordan be reversed, per Luke Johnson of NOLA.com.
The NFL fined Jordan, coaches Dennis Allen and Ryan Nielsen, and the organization a total of $550,000, saying Jordan faked an injury during the Saints' Dec. 5 game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The NFL rescinded those fines Thursday following an appeal.
In Benson's "strongly worded letter" to Goodell, she "stated that Jordan, the coaches and the team's medical personnel properly followed all the health and safety protocols in place, and that the Saints were clearly never looking for a competitive advantage by stopping the play to attend to Jordan's injury," per Johnson.