For many, what they got out of Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett on Thursday night against the Pittsburgh Steelers was something that they had never seen before in professional sports. I’m sure similar occurrences have not been all too frequent, generally speaking.
At the end of the game, Garrett, after violently removing Rudolph’s helmet, struck a blow on the quarterback’s head with said helmet after Rudolph began approaching him to confront him about his conduct. While he appears to have been relatively unharmed, his action in using the helmet as a weapon and striking him on the head amounts to an assault within any context.