NFL Investigates Eagles Security Chief Dom DiSandro Over Emmanuel Acho's Unnamed-Team Story

The NFL is investigating Philadelphia Eagles head of security Dom DiSandro, according to longtime Eagles reporter Derrick Gunn, over comments former linebacker Emmanuel Acho made on his Speakeasy podcast in early August.

Acho never named a team or a person. He played for the Cleveland Browns, Eagles and New York Giants during his career and said specifically that he wouldn't identify which franchise was involved, so listeners couldn't pin it down.

"I'm playing for a team, I can't say what team," Acho said on the podcast. "I played for three so, at least you all can't know exactly which one."

What Acho Actually Said

Acho described rear-ending another car on his way to practice years ago. He said he called a team security staffer, who told him to send away the first police officer who arrived and wait for a second one.

"He says, 'Acho, when the cop shows up, send the cop away. I'm going to send you another cop, and that other cop is going to say it wasn't your fault; it was their fault,'" Acho recalled. "I was like, 'Wait, they do that?'"

According to Acho, the second officer did arrive and placed fault on the other driver. Acho said that once the other driver realized he was an NFL player, she claimed she and her daughter were injured. He said the team's head of security then offered two home tickets and signed jerseys, after which the driver said they were fine.

The story only surfaced because Acho was using it to speculate about the offseason car accident involving San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan. A police report initially blamed the other driver in that crash; Shanahan later said that was a clerical error and accepted full responsibility. Acho floated a theory that the 49ers moved quickly to get ahead of a story before the other driver could contradict Shanahan's account. No source in this reporting confirms Acho's theory about the Shanahan crash, and it remains speculation on Acho's part.

Why DiSandro, Specifically

DiSandro, 48, has been with the Eagles since 1999 and holds multiple titles: chief security officer, senior adviser to general manager Howie Roseman, and head of gameday coaching operations, according to the Daily Mail. He's known across the league as "Big Dom."

He's also not new to NFL discipline. The league fined the Eagles $100,000 and banned DiSandro from the sideline for the rest of the 2023 regular season after a physical altercation with then-49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw. Last year, the Eagles were fined $75,000 after DiSandro used his cellphone in a prohibited area during a preseason game, a violation the team disputed.

That history is part of why speculation immediately centered on him once Gunn's report circulated, even though Acho never said his name and played for two other teams besides the Eagles.

The Case For Skepticism

Former Eagles cornerback Asante Samuel pushed back publicly, according to Larry Brown Sports, suggesting Acho's comments looked like a bid for attention rather than a credible allegation. That's worth weighing. Acho gave zero identifying details, told the story as an aside while discussing someone else's crash, and there is no independent confirmation that DiSandro was the staffer involved, or that the incident happened with the Eagles at all rather than Cleveland or New York.

As of Thursday, the NFL had not commented publicly, and neither had the Eagles or DiSandro, according to Larry Brown Sports.

A Broader Point NBC Sports Raises That Others Don't

Most of the coverage here, including from Newsweek, Yahoo Sports, the Daily Mail and Heavy.com, sticks to reporting Gunn's tweet and Acho's quotes without asking a bigger question. NBC Sports' Mike Florio did, arguing that if a fixer arrangement like this is real, it's likely not unique to one team, comparing the situation to the Saints' 2012 bounty scandal, where the league punished one team it caught while similar conduct was reportedly happening elsewhere. Florio's argument is that going after DiSandro alone, if that's what happens, would treat a potential leaguewide practice as an isolated incident. Whether that's actually how NFL teams operate is not established by any source here; it's Florio's inference, not a confirmed fact.

The Eagles open their 2026 season at home against the Washington Commanders in the coming days. Whether DiSandro is on the sideline for it, and whether the NFL announces any findings before then, hasn't been reported by any outlet as of this writing.