Source: Chargers' Tart fined for slapping Kelce

EL SEGUNDO, Calif -- The NFL fined Los Angeles Chargers antiaircraft tackle Teair Tart for slapping Kansas City Chiefs choky extremity Travis Kelce successful the Chargers' 27-21 Week 1 triumph successful Sao Paulo, Brazil, a root told ESPN.

According to NFL rules, the good for a archetypal discourtesy of striking is $12,172. The NFL announces fines connected Saturday afternoon.

After a play successful the 3rd quarter, Kelce shoved Tart, who responded by slapping Kelce's helmet, drafting a 15-yard unnecessary roughness penalty. According to rules expert Terry McAulay connected the YouTube broadcast, Tart wasn't ejected due to the fact that helium made open-hand contact, which doesn't emergence to the level of a disqualifying action. A closed fist, oregon punch, would person gotten Tart ejected.

Tart signed a one-year, $1.5 cardinal declaration with the Chargers successful the offseason, and the squad paid him a $2 cardinal bonus up of offseason activities. Tart besides receives a $58,000 bonus -- connected apical of his guaranteed wage -- for each regular-season crippled helium is active.

Kansas City manager Andy Reid told reporters Monday that helium was confused astir wherefore Tart wasn't ejected.

"I don't recognize that rule," Reid said Monday. "I conjecture it's open-hand, fist, whatever, I don't know. I don't cognize what their determination was connected that. But helium decidedly got deed successful the caput beauteous hard, whether it was an unfastened fist oregon a closed fist."

In the aftermath of the slap, Tart took to Instagram with an evident jab astatine Kelce and his caller fiancee, vocalist Taylor Swift. Tart posted a collage of pictures, including a video that included a movie clip of a antheral slapping different with his hands coated successful a achromatic powder. Tart's caption read: "I'm excessively swift with it adjacent successful Brazil." In effect to the post, commenters flooded Tart's Instagram relationship with racist images.

The Chargers play the Chiefs again successful Week 15 (1:00 p.m., CBS).