Los Angeles Rams offensive lineman Alaric Jackson to had his two-game suspension for punching a member of the Buffalo Bills reduced to one game on Wednesday after appealing the initial ruling.
Hearing officer Derrick Brooks, jointly appointed by the NFL and the NFLPA, reduced the suspension.
Jackson was disciplined without pay for striking Buffalo linebacker Bradley Chubb in the face after their teams’ overtime game Monday night. He will not play in the Rams' game against Arizona on Sunday, but now will be eligible for the Oct. 25 game at Las Vegas.
David Quessenberry will be the Rams’ starting left tackle against the Cardinals.
Jackson struck Chubb after the two exchanged words following the Bills’ 37-34 overtime victory over the Rams at SoFi Stadium.
Jackson was doing a jersey swap with another Bills player when Chubb had words with him and walked away. Jackson followed and confronted Chubb before throwing a strike that knocked Chubb’s hat off his head.
Teammates quickly separated the two, but Jackson was already in trouble yet again.
Jackson was arrested on June 9 on suspicion of felony domestic violence after a confrontation with a woman at his home in the San Fernando Valley. His case was assigned for a prefiling diversion that likely allows him to avoid criminal charges, but the NFL has yet to announce a decision on possible league discipline for that incident.
He was sued in 2025 by a woman who alleged he recorded sexual acts with her on his phone without her consent. The incident, which wasn’t publicly revealed until the lawsuit was filed, led to Jackson being suspended for the first two games of the 2024 season for an undisclosed violation of the NFL’s personal conduct policy.
Jackson, a Canadian-American dual citizen, is one of the Rams’ longest-tenured players. He won a Super Bowl ring as a backup lineman in February 2022.
AP Pro Football Writer Rob Maaddi contributed to this report.
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FILE - Los Angeles Rams offensive tackle Alaric Jackson (77) jogs back to the locker room before an NFL football game against the New York Giants in Inglewood, Calif., Sept. 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Kyusung Gong, File)
NEW DELHI (AP) — Two leaders of India’s “Cockroach” youth movement were sentenced by a local court to serve five days in jail after being detained during a protest demanding the resignation of the country’s election chief, the group said Wednesday.
Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das were among about a dozen people detained by police Tuesday after they climbed over barricades to enter the grounds of Jantar Mantar, a historic observatory in central New Delhi that has long been a site for protests.
Police said this week that the site was no longer an official protest venue and accused Das and Ranka of trespassing and defying prohibitory orders.
The arrests follow a sweeping police crackdown over the weekend aimed at preventing mostly young Indians from gathering in New Delhi to demand the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. Police briefly detained thousands of demonstrators.
“Jantar Mantar belongs to the people of India. We will reclaim it,” opposition leader Rahul Gandhi wrote on X in a post condemning the arrests as “an act of cowardice.”
Protests have intensified over an ongoing nationwide revision of voter lists that has removed more than 130 million names since last year. Critics say the exercise is politically motivated and could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters.
The Election Commission and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's administration say the revision is intended to remove duplicate and ineligible entries.
Abhijeet Dipke, the “Cockroach” movement’s founder, criticized Modi in a post on X.
“If you’re so determined to crush dissent, have the courage to officially declare an Emergency instead of hiding behind these cowardly tactics,” Dipke wrote.
The “Cockroach” movement began as an online satirical campaign this summer after India’s chief justice compared unemployed young people to parasites. Many young Indians embraced the remark, adopting the cockroach as a symbol of resilience.
Protests led by the group forced the resignation of Modi’s education minister in July, a rare setback for the prime minister, who has been in power for more than 12 years.
Protesters and commuters walk past graffiti on a road depicting allegations of vote theft during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar in New Delhi, India, Monday, Oct. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
Security personnel detain an activist from the student wing of the Congress party during a youth protest calling for the resignation of the country's election chief Gyanesh Kumar, in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Prabhat Mehrotra)
India's opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi, center, and his sister, fellow lawmaker Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, lead opposition party leaders and workers in a march toward the Supreme Court demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar in New Delhi, India, Monday, Oct. 12, 2026. (AP Photo)
Workers and activists of various opposition parties march toward the Supreme Court demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar in New Delhi, India, Monday, Oct. 12, 2026.(AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
FILE -Saurav Das, chief spokesperson of the Cockroach Janta Party, center, looks on as fellow spokesperson Ashutosh Ranka, right, shakes hands with India's Health Minister J.P. Nadda during a joint press conference in New Delhi, India, July 25, 2026, following the resignation of India's education minister. (AP Photo, File)
