Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham and Carolina Panthers' Josh Norman last year in East Rutherford, N.J. When Beckham speared Norman last December, his third major penalty of the game, there was no ejection.

Hitting millionaires with fines that barely make a dent in their wallets doesn’t measure up to the dents those players are making in opponents.

Ejections and suspensions might be far more effective in the NFL.

Already this season, we’ve seen enough egregious hits and subsequent fines to raise this question: Just how much are tacklers becoming more cautious when it comes to potentially questionable hits? The answer just might be: not at all. In the past eight seasons, there have been 60 players expelled from games. Many of those have come for fighting. Others include contact with officials or ripping off an opponent’s helmet.

But when Giants receiver Odell Beckham Jr. speared Panthers cornerback Josh Norman last December — Beckham’s third major penalty of the game — there was no ejection. At least Beckham was suspended for his next game, and he felt like a turncoat.

“I think it’s easy to get caught up in, ‘Oh, man, did you see three guys got hurt this week? Nothing’s working,”’ says Bengals tackle Eric Winston, president of the NFLPA. “And then you go four more weeks and nothing happens and no one says anything.”