The NFL has adopted a new policy on fines. For the first time, the league is releasing a weekly list of players who have been fined for on-the-field transgressions.

The list is being released weekly on Saturday afternoons. When the NFL releases the fines report for Week 4 of the 2023 season, will Denver Broncos safety Kareem Jackson’s name be on it?

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If it isn’t, it will be the first time this season he has played without getting fined.

“They usually don’t get them to me until about Thursday, so we’ll wait and see,” Jackson said during a Wednesday appearance on “The Ross Tucker Podcast.” “I don’t think I did anything malicious as far as hits or anything else, but we’ll wait and see. I would like to say this will be my first week not getting fined.”

If Jackson doesn’t get fined for something he did on the field during the Broncos’ 31-28 victory over the Chicago Bears on Sunday, maybe the NFL will fine the former Alabama standout for what he had to say about the league’s fines system.

“It’s getting out of hand, man,” Jackson said. “I think the lowest fine might be a uniform violation, and that’s going to cost you at least $5,200. Everything else just goes up from there, and they always say if you get another one, they’re going to double it. It’s completely out of hand – the fine system. The referees and what they’re throwing the flags on that’s causing guys to get fined, it’s crazy.

“I got fined the first week for a hit where the guy, he slipped and kind of changed the angle of my tackle. It had started raining. I was going to go low, and he slipped, which kind of changed the angle of the tackle, and I got a fine for it.

“And, you know, you do these appeals, and they give you back half your money, but it’s still some BS. You’re taking money from me for these things. I’m not out here trying to maliciously hurt people.”

Jackson received an unnecessary-roughness penalty for his tackle of Las Vegas wide receiver Jakobi Meyers on a 7-yard completion on a third-and-8 pass from the Raiders 44-yard line with 2:54 to play in the Broncos’ season-opener. Meyers entered the NFL concussion protocol, and Jackson got a $14,819 fine.

The next week, Jackson launched himself into Washington Commanders tight end Logan Thomas in the end zone on a fourth-and-goal pass from the Denver 4-yard line. Thomas caught the football for a touchdown even though Jackson got an unnecessary-roughness penalty and was ejected for his hit on the tight end, who missed the rest of the game while being evaluated for a concussion.

The NFL fined Jackson $19,669.

In the Broncos’ Week 3 game on Sept. 24, Jackson was not penalized. But the NFL still fined him $11,473 for unnecessary roughness, citing a tackle he made against the Miami Dolphins.

“I talked to Jakobi Meyers in Week 1,” Jackson said. “I talked to Logan right after the game. I’m not out there to hurt anybody. But I am out there to impose my will. That’s what makes me the player I am. That’s who I am. I play the game with the intent to impose my will. That’s what safety’s about.

“At one point in time, guys got praised for hitting guys hard. You got guys in the Hall of Fame because that’s what they did. Now, they want you to apologize for it. That’s my style of play. … You hit a guy hard in the game, and later on he knows he’s going to get hit, maybe that’s a situation where we make a play or we cause a turnover.”

Jackson doesn’t care if fans look at his fine sheet and think he’s a dirty player because, he said, he has 14 years in NFL that show he isn’t.

“Nothing in my career suggests I’m a dirty player,” Jackson said, “other than I knock the hell out of people.”

Jackson’s next chance to do that comes on Sunday, when the Broncos square off against the New York Jets at 3:25 p.m. CDT at Empower Field at Mile High in Denver.

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.