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By Kevin McCormick
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The Philadelphia Eagles' season opener against the Dallas Cowboys last Thursday kicked off in dramatic fashion with an ejection in the opening minute. A little less than a week removed from the incident, the league has come to a final decision on a punishment.
While an injured Eagles player was being attended to following the opening kickoff, Cowboys QB Dak Prescott got into a war of words with Jalen Carter. The Eagles' lineman ended up sending things to a fever pitch when he spat on his opponent.
Carter's actions found him ejected from the game before he even got to play a down. Though Philadelphia was without one of its top defensive talents, the defending champs still managed to walk out with a 24-20 victory over Dallas.
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Eagles' Jalen Carter avoids suspension for altercation with Dak Prescott
On Tuesday afternoon, ESPN's Adam Schefter reported the latest on the Eagles' defensive lineman. The league has decided to fine Carter $57,222 for spitting on Prescott.
More notably, the league office has decided not to suspend Carter. The reasoning for this was that he essentially missed an entire game already, which equates to a one-game absence.
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Schefter also noted that this amount was chosen because it equals out to one game check for Carter based on his salary for the 2025 season.
With no further punishments being handed out, it looks as though Carter will get to make his season debut this Sunday against Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs.
In the days following the matchup, Carter faced endless backlash for his actions towards Prescott. Many called for him to be suspended this week, but the league apparently felt otherwise.
Now, the Eagles will officially have the former No. 9 pick at their disposal when they take the field Sunday in a rematch of last year's Super Bowl.
Though he didn't openly direct the comments at Carter, Eagles QB Jalen Hurts reflected on the need for discipline in his postgame press conference.
"When you come into the first game, you worry about the little details, the things and situations you may have not felt in a long time," Hurts said. "Getting hit, protecting the ball, communication, intense environment. And so I think as a whole team it's just a matter of taking our discipline to another level and our focus to another level and then playing together and staying banded together and being able to control the things that we can control."
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