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NFL Announces Stiff Penalties for Vikings' Dallas Turner, Blake Cashman

The NFL Office of Gameday Accountability will collect two significant fines from Minnesota Vikings defenders for their on-field actions during the team’s defeat to the Los Angeles Chargers on “Thursday Night Football.” During the first quarter, edge-rusher Dallas Turner “launched” while making a stop. The league penalized him for unnecessary roughness and fined Turner $19,907 for the offense. In the following period, linebacker Blake Cashman used his helmet illegally as part of a play. NFL officials hit him with an unnecessary roughness penalty totaling $23,186. It was Cashman’s second game back since he suffered a hamstring strain during the season-opener against the Chicago Bears. Neither Cashman nor Turner faces a suspension. Read More: Vikings QB JJ McCarthy Receives Dire Warning Before Lions Return Edge-rusher Dallas Turner #15 of the Minnesota Vikings. (Photo by David Berding/Getty Images) Minnesota next takes the field on Sunday against the Detroit Lions. Second-year quarterback J.J. McCarthy will be back in the starting lineup after Carson Wentz underwent surgery to repair an injury to his non-throwing shoulder. McCarthy played just two games to begin the season before he sustained a high-ankle sprain, which knocked him out for the next six weeks (five games). As a still highly inexperienced quarterback at the NFL level, the timing of the 22-year-old QB’s return is not ideal for the Vikings (3-4). “The Vikings, to this point in the season, had the easiest schedule in the NFL. The Vikings going forward have the hardest schedule in the NFL,” said Danny Heifetz of The Ringer on the October 22 edition of The Bill Simmons Podcast. “So McCarthy comes back, he’s gonna get rocked. He’s clearly not ready for the NFL, and the Vikings are a win-now team.” Minnesota plays Detroit twice, the Green Bay Packers twice, the Chicago Bears once and the Seattle Seahawks once over the final 10 games of the campaign. Read More: Bears Star Puts Vikings WR Justin Jefferson on Blast

During the first quarter, edge-rusher Dallas Turner “launched” while making a stop. The league penalized him for unnecessary roughness and fined Turner $19,907 for the offense.

In the following period, linebacker Blake Cashman used his helmet illegally as part of a play. NFL officials hit him with an unnecessary roughness penalty totaling $23,186. It was Cashman’s second game back since he suffered a hamstring strain during the season-opener against the Chicago Bears.

Neither Cashman nor Turner faces a suspension.

Read More: Vikings QB JJ McCarthy Receives Dire Warning Before Lions Return

Edge-rusher Dallas Turner #15 of the Minnesota Vikings. (Photo by David Berding/Getty Images)

Minnesota next takes the field on Sunday against the Detroit Lions. Second-year quarterback J.J. McCarthy will be back in the starting lineup after Carson Wentz underwent surgery to repair an injury to his non-throwing shoulder.

McCarthy played just two games to begin the season before he sustained a high-ankle sprain, which knocked him out for the next six weeks (five games). As a still highly inexperienced quarterback at the NFL level, the timing of the 22-year-old QB’s return is not ideal for the Vikings (3-4).

“The Vikings, to this point in the season, had the easiest schedule in the NFL. The Vikings going forward have the hardest schedule in the NFL,” said Danny Heifetz of The Ringer on the October 22 edition of The Bill Simmons Podcast. “So McCarthy comes back, he’s gonna get rocked. He’s clearly not ready for the NFL, and the Vikings are a win-now team.”

Minnesota plays Detroit twice, the Green Bay Packers twice, the Chicago Bears once and the Seattle Seahawks once over the final 10 games of the campaign.

Read More: Bears Star Puts Vikings WR Justin Jefferson on Blast