NFL issues fines for penalties during Bears’ games vs. Lions, Giants

There were a handful of altercations in the Bears’ opener against the Lions and a couple more in their Week 2 win over the Giants, and the NFL issued fines from the first two weeks Saturday.

The most notable discipline was a $35,096 fine for Lions linebacker Jamie Collins, a source said, because he made contact with an official in Week 1. He was trying to demonstrate something to the official and head-butted him in the chest, resulting in an immediate unsportsmanlike conduct penalty and ejection.

“Nothing was intentional, obviously,” Collins said this week. “It’s crazy [that they’d think] a person like me would ever, so they say, head-butt a referee. It wasn’t intentional.”

Bears cornerback Kyle Fuller also was fined $15,000 for blindsiding Lions tight end T.J. Hockenson with a shoulder to the head on a pass in the first quarter.

Lions defensive end Romeo Okwara was fined $10,000 for his facemask penalty on Bears quarterback Mitch Trubisky in the fourth quarter, and the NFL fined cornerback Desmond Trufant $10,000 for a facemask on wide receiver Darnell Mooney.

On a positive note for the Bears, right guard Germain Ifedi was not fined for his chop block in the fourth quarter of the Giants game, and neither did linebacker Roquan Smith for committing unnecessary roughness on Giants quarterback Daniel Jones.

Bears defensive lineman Roy Robertson-Harris didn’t get fined for his roughing-the-passer penalty against Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford.