Nick Suss Oct 23, 2026, 12:33 PM ET

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- Buffalo Bills safety and special teams captain Sam Franklin Jr . has won his appeal to overturn the one-game suspension the NFL tagged him with for supposedly spitting at an opponent in the Week 6 win over the Las Vegas Raiders .

Franklin's suspension has been reduced to a fine of $14,926, per an NFL announcement.

The NFL announced Wednesday that it would suspend Franklin without pay for one game because of a spitting incident said to have occurred on a fourth-quarter extra point try. Franklin denied the allegation and moved quickly to appeal, saying in a social media post that he'll always do what it takes to defend himself but that he'd never spit at an opponent.

The suspension came in the wake of a second Bills defender, safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson , being suspended for a high-profile spitting incident in the same game.…