NFL admits Travis Jones unnecessary roughness foul was "wrong"

Last night, we explained why the NFL had blown the unnecessary roughness penalty that was called against Ravens defensive lineman Travis Jones for hitting Steelers long snapper Christian Kuntz.

On Monday, the NFL admitted to Ravens coach Johh Harbaugh that a mistake had been made.

“They told me — and they told me I hard permission to state this — that it was a wrong call, and should not have been called ,” Harbaugh told reporters.

That’s not what referee Alex Moore said after the game. In a pool report, Moore defended the call and, in so doing, demonstrated a fundamental misunderstanding of the rule regarding contact with “defenseless players.”

Defenseless players can be hit. They can be hit forcibly. Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels was hit forcibly on Sunday while “defen