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Nfl Suspends Raiders’ Vontaze Burfict For Rest Of Season For Helmet-To-Helmet Hit

NFL Vice President of football operations Jon Runyan announced the suspension Monday.

OAKLAND (AP) — Oakland Raiders linebacker Vontaze Burfict has been suspended for the rest of the season for a helmet-to-helmet hit on Indianapolis Colts tight end Jack Doyle.

NFL Vice President of football operations Jon Runyan announced the suspension Monday. The league says Burfict is suspended without pay for the remaining 13 weeks of the season and any playoff games for “repeated violations of unnecessary roughness rules.”

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