NEW YORK - Detroit Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh won his appeal against the 1 game suspension he received this week and will appear in the team's Wild Card game at Dallas on Sunday.
He will be fined $70,000 for the incident, according to Aaron Wilson of the Baltimore Sun.
Suh was suspended for one game after he twice stepped on the leg of Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers as he lay on the turf in last Sunday's game between Detroit and Green Bay that decided the NFC North champion.
He was not flagged on the play, despite protests from Rodgers afterwards to many of the surrounding officials.
Following that game, the NFL ruled Rodgers to be "in a defenseless posture" as Suh was coming off his block. He appeared to have a chance to stop his momentum, though took two steps backwards onto Rodgers' leg.
The league noted that Suh was "applying pressure and unnecessarily pushing off Rodgers' unprotected leg with his left foot, violating playing rules prohibiting unnecessary roughness."
"If you step on something in your everyday life or if you step on somebody on the field, the first reactions seems to be looking back and maybe apologizing with your hands or maybe pulling your foot back right away, and I'm just not sure that's what happened on Sunday," Aaron Rodgers said during his radio show to ESPN Milwaukee.
Rodgers had injured his leg earlier in the game while throwing one of his two touchdowns to Randall Cobb and left the field momentarily before returning in the second half. Green Bay defeated Detroit 30-20 on Sunday.
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