49ers offensive tackle Trent Williams appears to have caught a break from the NFL after his 'punch' at Giants player A'Shawn Robinson.
However, the NFL decided that there wasn’t enough evidence in the various video angles to prove that Williams actually delivered a closed fist punch, an act that would be an offense worthy of a fine.
NFL Senior Vice President of Officiating Walt Anderson chimed in, saying after the game that they determined that Williams did not commit an ejection-worthy offense. “When we have a flag thrown on the field for unnecessary roughness, members of the officiating department are able to review available video, Rule 19, to determine if there is a flagrant action that should result in a disqualification,” Anderson said, according to“We ended up looking at the video we had available to us, and we just didn’t see anything that rose to the level of flagrant, which is the standard that we have to apply to disqualify the player,” Anderson added.
“We couldn’t confirm that 100 percent from the standpoint of was it truly a closed fist with a strike, we just couldn’t determine that,” he added. “It’s a lot of tempers flaring out there. It’s a competitive game, sometimes things boil over a little bit,” Anderson concluded. “It was a love tap. It wasn’t that hard.”Williams still came in for much criticism on social media:Trent Williams punched Robinson in the face, no ejection.
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