Pernell McPhee fined $17,363 for low hit on Carson Palmer

During the playoffs after the 2005 season, then-Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer suffered a serious knee injury when he took a low hit from Steelers defensive tackle Kimo von Oelhoffen. At the time, such hits were legal. But that offseason the NFL adopted what is sometimes called the Carson Palmer Rule, designed to protect quarterbacks from…