Patrick Mahomes fined $14,000 for 'violent gesture' while celebrating touchdown: report

The National Football League has been cracking down connected celebrations that whitethorn look similar guns – but Patrick Mahomes seemingly missed the memo.

The Kansas City Chiefs backmost was 1 of the latest to usage his arms successful the manner to observe a touchdown, and it affected his wallet.

The NFL Network reports that Mahomes was fined implicit $14,000 for what the league is calling a "violent gesture."

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Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs throws a walk against the Buffalo Bills astatine Highmark Stadium connected Nov. 17, 2024, successful Orchard Park, New York. (Timothy T Ludwig/Getty Images)

Many players person been deed with penalties and fines due to the fact that they would usage the celebration, albeit innocently, connected archetypal downs.

Last month, the league had grown "concerned" astir the magnitude of "gun-related" celebrations, causing them to travel up with stricter penalties for it.

According to Spotrac, the NFL has handed retired 17 fines for "obscene gestures" this play – determination were nary specified fines successful 2023.

Kansas City Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes scrambles distant from Buffalo Bills antiaircraft tackle Jordan Phillips, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024, successful Orchard Park. (AP Photo/Jeffrey T. Barnes)

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"[The rule] has been successful the books for years, and it hasn't truly surfaced… haven't truly noticed it that overmuch until this year," 1 league enforcement said to CBS Sports past month. "Now it's astir an epidemic of them."

"We don’t deliberation it’s appropriate.… It sends the incorrect message," NFL commissioner Roger Goodell added astatine the time.

Mahomes was fined $50,000 past twelvemonth for "verbally abusing" an official. 

The good is an insult to wounded for Mahomes, arsenic his Chiefs suffered their archetypal nonaccomplishment of the play aft winning their archetypal 9 games.

Kansas City Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes is pressured by Buffalo Bills cornerback Taron Johnson arsenic helium releases a walk astatine Highmark Stadium. (Mark Konezny-Imagn Images)

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Their docket gets easier connected Sunday, arsenic they sojourn Carolina to look the Panthers.

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