Anyone who knows Kalif Raymond knows he would stay as far away from controversy as possible, yet his actions in the Detroit Lions’ Week 9 game against the Minnesota Vikings caught the ire from some of his opponents this week.

On a screen play to Jahmyr Gibbs, Raymond went into motion toward the line of scrimmage. When the ball was snapped, he crashed into Vikings edge defender Andrew Van Ginkel, sending the 242-pound defender flying into the ground. Despite the fact that Van Ginkel was able to pull himself up and make the tackle, he—and a few other Vikings defenders—believed the block had no place in the game of football and was even “dirty.”

“And all of a sudden I get whiplash because the guy blindsides me,” Van Ginkel told ESPN. “I’m not going to go into too much detail about it, but I

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