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How does one judge unnecessary roughness? I know Fed rules don't exactly use that phrase now to describe what's still labeled "unnecessary roughness", but it seems a literal application of that phrase would be a good baseline. If a player goes out of the way to do something rough to an opponent that doesn't help the team's position in comparison w other things he could've done, I'd say that's UR.
In this case, probably so. The tackler could equally easily have swung the player around still upright to accomplish the same result, I think. Or he could've started like the suplex, but then gone down himself on his own back, pulling the runner down on top of him, instead of slinging him over himself. It seems more difficult, for no tactical advantage, to use the suplex move.
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