Written by Frank Schwab at YahooSports.com
Football is violent. That won’t change. For better or worse it’s part of the game.
But there should be at least some basic respect and decency for fellow competitors. There was none to be seen from Chicago Bears linebacker Danny Trevathan on what will end up (hopefully) as the dirtiest hit of this season.
In the third quarter of Thursday night’s 35-14 Green Bay Packers blowout, receiver Davante Adams caught a short pass on third-and-goal. He was being held up by a Bears defender well short of the goal line. The play, for all purposes, was over. Trevathan came in and drilled Adams in the head with an unnecessary, vicious helmet-to-helmet hit.
Prayers out for Davante Adams, unnecessary hit by Danny Trevathan #PrayforAdams pic.twitter.com/KU0IRefIJB
— SportsNotes (@SportsNotes23) September 29, 2017
Adams’ mouthpiece flew out and his body went limp as he fell to the ground. Packers players frantically waved for the trainers and they came out running. Trevathan was given a 15-yard penalty, but that’s not enough. That’s the same as Von Miller got for a “too slow” joke with Tyrod Taylor. It’s the same as Odell Beckham got for mimicking a dog peeing after he scored a touchdown. Neither of the latter two infractions ended up with someone leaving the field on a stretcher. Adams was taken away from Lambeau Field in an ambulance after he was taken off the field.
Adams gave a thumbs up signal as he left the field, and everyone was thankful for that.
Adams is conscious and has movement in all his extremities. He’s been taken to a hospital for further testing.
— Green Bay Packers (@packers) September 29, 2017
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