Campbell bruised a knee and was taken out of the game, but was not seriously hurt. He expects to play Thursday night against Jacksonville in the Redskins' final exhibition game.

The NFL has been more stringent about lower leg hits to unprotected quarterbacks since the Steelers' Kimo von Oelhoffen took the Bengals' Carson Palmer out of a playoff game in January 2006 with such a hit. Von Oelhoffen was not penalized.

"I didn't think I would get one (a fine) but I did," Keisel said today. "I guess they've got to throw the flag when you're messing around with the quarterback's feet. I'll appeal it and we'll see what happens."

Asked what his defense would be, Keisel said, "I was playing ball."

"All I did was make an inside move," Keisel said. "I tripped and I saw that he still had the ball and I went to make a play. If he would have held onto the ball, it would have been a sack. But he threw the ball and it was a penalty."

Because NFL players don't collect on their regular-season salaries until the season starts, Keisel said the fine means "I'm paying them now to play."

In other news, Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward missed practice today with an undisclosed injury. But he isn't expected to miss the Sept. 9 opener at Cleveland.

Coach Mike Tomlin said that he hasn't ruled Ward out of Thursday night's exhibition game at Carolina, when the starters are expected to play one quarter.

"Hines is Hines. I wouldn't count Hines out," Tomlin said of the Steelers' career leader in receptions. "He's a player-coach in my mind. He's not a guy you need to worry about being up at game time."