After the Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Detroit Lions 30\u201317, a heated altercation broke out when Lions safety Brian Branch struck Chiefs wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster in the face, sparking a postgame scrum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The incident began when Branch ignored a handshake attempt from Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and then landed an open-handed blow to Smith-Schuster\u2019s facemask, knocking him to the ground. Smith-Schuster tried to retaliate, leading to a scuffle involving players from both teams before coaches and personnel intervened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Branch later apologized, calling his behavior \u201cchildish\u201d and saying he was frustrated by what he viewed as uncalled infractions earlier in the game. He specifically cited a play in which he believed Smith-Schuster illegally blocked him in the back without penalty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Detroit\u2019s head coach Dan Campbell condemned the action as unacceptable and apologized to the Chiefs and Smith-Schuster, emphasizing it did not reflect the team\u2019s values. Chiefs coach Andy Reid called the hit \u201cunprovoked,\u201d noting that Smith-Schuster sustained a bloody nose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Branch, a second-year player who has already been fined multiple times this season for unsportsmanlike conduct, faces further disciplinary action from the NFL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After the Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Detroit Lions 30\u201317, a heated altercation broke out when Lions safety Brian Branch struck Chiefs wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster in the face, sparking a postgame scrum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/chiefsfight.jpg",599,399,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/chiefsfight.jpg",599,399,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/chiefsfight.jpg",599,399,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/chiefsfight-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/chiefsfight-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"large":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/chiefsfight.jpg",599,399,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/chiefsfight.jpg",599,399,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/chiefsfight.jpg",599,399,false],"digital-newspaper-featured":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/chiefsfight.jpg",599,399,false],"digital-newspaper-list":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/chiefsfight.jpg",599,399,false],"digital-newspaper-thumb":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/chiefsfight-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"digital-newspaper-small":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/chiefsfight-150x95.jpg",150,95,true],"digital-newspaper-grid":["https:\/\/theamshift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/chiefsfight-400x250.jpg",400,250,true]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/?author=1"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"Sports<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"After the Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Detroit Lions 30\u201317, a heated altercation broke out when Lions safety Brian Branch struck Chiefs wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster in the face, sparking a postgame scrum.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3372"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3391,"href":"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3372\/revisions\/3391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamshift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}