Seahawks player Tariq Woolen fined for taunting ahead of Super Bowl

Seattle Seahawks antiaircraft backmost Tariq Woolen was fined $17,398 Saturday for a taunting punishment during the NFC title crippled against the Los Angeles Rams. 

Woolen's punishment came astatine a captious constituent with little than 3 minutes successful the 3rd quarter. After the Seahawks stopped the Rams connected 3rd down with an 11-point lead, it appeared Seattle would get an accidental to enactment the crippled retired of reach. 

But Woolen jawed astatine the Rams seat portion backpedaling with his hands down his backmost aft the play. 

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So, alternatively of forcing a punt backmost to the Seattle offense, the punishment gave the Rams an automatic archetypal down. LA scored conscionable a play aboriginal to chopped the pb to 1 possession. 

Woolen yelled astatine his teammates connected the sideline aft the Rams touchdown and was the absorption of immense disapproval connected societal media. 

After the game, Woolen took to societal media to code the concern and the backlash helium faced, appearing to connection an apology successful meme form, portion besides praising the transportation with his teammates amid the sideline altercation. 

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"No much taunting penalties," helium wrote successful 1 post. 

"Wasn't getting pressed. We brothers and we each chasing greatness we connected the aforesaid mission," helium wrote successful another, successful effect to a idiosyncratic who accused him of getting "pressed." 

While the Woolen punishment made the crippled overmuch person than it could person been successful the 4th quarter, Seattle's defence held connected to unafraid the win, 31-27, to beforehand to the Super Bowl. 

Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba, right, celebrates with teammates aft scoring a touchdown during the archetypal fractional of a divisional playoff crippled against the San Francisco 49ers Jan. 17, 2026, successful Seattle.  (AP Photo/Stephen Brashear)

The Seahawks enactment the crippled distant acknowledgment to a fourth-down halt with little than 5 minutes remaining. Seattle yet clinched the NFC rubric erstwhile clip ran retired connected Los Angeles aft Puka Nacua's 21-yard drawback to effort and acceptable the Rams up for a Hail Mary attempt.

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Riq Woolen of the Seattle Seahawks reacts aft winning an NFL divisional playoff crippled against the San Francisco 49ers astatine Lumen Field Jan. 17, 2026 successful Seattle.  (Brooke Sutton/Getty Images)

This year's Super Bowl is simply a rematch of the Seahawks' past Super Bowl quality successful 2015. They instrumentality connected the New England Patriots successful Santa Clara, California, Feb. 8. The erstwhile Super Bowl betwixt those 2 teams is regarded arsenic 1 of the champion ever. New England sealed the triumph successful the last seconds with a Malcolm Butler interception of Russell Wilson astatine the extremity line. 

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