The wallet for Pittsburgh Steelers safety DeShon Elliott is a little lighter this week after he received a fine for violating the NFL’s Uniform and Equipment Rules. It is safe to say Elliott is not happy with the fine.
The veteran safety took to Instagram to post his grievances. Elliott wrote a very strong message, tagging the league and NFL’s Players Association, as a caption to a picture of the letter he received from the NFL notifying him of the fine.
“Count your [expletive] days … Yall worried about the wrong things,” Elliott wrote on the Instagram post, via Steelers Now’s Chris Ward. “Let’s fix things that actually mean something.”
The letter that Elliott posted said he received the fine for wearing a black towel against the Minnesota Vikings.
“Rule 5, Section 4, Article 6, Item (5) of the 2025 Official Playing Rules of the National Football League states that ‘Towels, provided they are white only, licensed towels approved by the League office for use on the playing field. Players are prohibited from adding personal messages, logos, names, symbols, or illustrations,’” read Elliot’s letter.
“‘A player may wear no more than one towel. Players are prohibited from discarding on the playing field any loose towels or other materials used for wiping hands on the football. Streamers or ribbons, regardless of length, hanging from any part of the uniform are prohibited.’”
Steelers’ DeShon Elliott Receives Fine for Black Towel
It’s worth noting that it’s unclear if Elliott’s black towel had a message. But the league’s letter said nothing about Elliott having a prohibited message on the towel.
Presumably, the Steelers safety received the fine because his towel was black, not white.
The NFL fined Elliott $5,797 for the violation.
According to Spotrac, Elliott possesses a $2.04 million base salary this season. That means, for the black towel violation, the NFL fined Elliott about 5% of his game check for Week 4.
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