The Canadian Football League has announced that Hamilton Tiger-Cats linebacker Simoni Lawrence has been suspended two games for his head hit on Saskatchewan Roughriders quarterback Zach Collaros in the CFL season opener this past Thursday.

A scrambling Collaros left the game after the hit in the first quarter and  Lawrence received a 25-yard roughing-the-passer penalty

Collaros was placed on the six-game injured list Sunday.