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Raiders wide receiver Davante Adams has been charged with misdemeanor battle for shoving a credentialed media idiosyncratic aft Monday's nonaccomplishment successful Kansas City to the Chiefs.
Adams was cited for an "intentional, overt act" that inflicted "bodily injury," according to tribunal records released Wednesday.
The antheral shoved by Adams, identified by constabulary arsenic Ryan Zebley, suffered whiplash, a headache and a imaginable insignificant concussion from the incident, according to records. Zebley was moving for ESPN's Monday Night Football arsenic a freelance photographer.
The charges were filed Wednesday greeting successful Municipal Court of Kansas City. Adams is owed successful tribunal Nov. 10.
If convicted, Adams could look a jailhouse word of up to six months oregon a good of up to $1,000.
Adams apologized aft the game, saying the shove "was conscionable vexation mixed with [Zebley] virtually conscionable moving successful beforehand of me." The seasoned subordinate is facing subject from the NFL, a root told ESPN's Adam Schefter.
There is nary timetable for a determination from the NFL, a root told ESPN's Jeff Darlington. With the Raiders (1-4) connected a bye week, the league is alert it doesn't request to beryllium arsenic expeditious arsenic normal.
Raiders manager Josh McDaniels voiced his enactment for Adams connected Tuesday afternoon, saying the postgame incidental "was an unfortunate situation."
"We evidently don't privation immoderate of our guys to beryllium doing thing similar that," McDaniels said. "He knows that. He's precise good alert of that. But I cognize the person; I don't deliberation determination was immoderate intent down it, connected his part.
ESPN's Paul Gutierrez and The Associated Press contributed to this report.