Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Mike Evans is scheduled for an appeal hearing with the NFL on Tuesday night regarding his one-game suspension for instigating a fracas with New Orleans Saints cornerback Marshon Lattimore.
NFL vice president of football operations Jon Runyan said that Evans violated Rule 12, Section 2, Article 8(g) which prohibits "unnecessarily running, diving into, cutting, or throwing the body against or on a player who is out of the play or should not have reasonably anticipated such contact."
He also violated Rule 12, Section 3, Article 1 which prohibits any act that is "contrary to the generally understood principles of sportsmanship.