SAN DIEGO (AP) - San Diego Chargers strong safety Rodney Harrison will meet with an NFL executive in New York on Monday to appeal his one-game suspension for a helmet-to-helmet hit on Oakland's Jerry Rice.

Harrison, a two-time Pro Bowler, said he has video clips that prove he didn't hit Rice helmet-first, as NFL disciplinarian Gene Washington contended. Washington suspended Harrison without pay for next Sunday's game against the New York Jets.

If the suspension is upheld, Harrison will lose $111,764 - 1/17th of his base pay of $1.9 million.

"From some of the evidence we have, if they look at it objectively, then I think we have a real good chance of getting this overturned," Harrison said shortly after arriving in New York on Sunday afternoon. "The frames we have clearly indicate it was not helmet-to-helmet.

"Now, if they go into it with a sense of, `Well, we are going to make our point,' then I clearly have no chance. But from the type of evidence we have, if I felt like I didn't have a case, I wouldn't fly 6,000 miles in two days to come out here and turn around and go home."

The Chargers (6-1) had their bye Sunday and have Monday off before returning to practice on Tuesday.

Harrison said video of the play, from San Diego's 27-21 overtime win at Oakland on Oct. 20, shows he used his right forearm and shoulder to hit Rice's left shoulder. The impact knocked Rice's head back, Harrison said.

Washington disagreed. In a letter to Harrison last week, Washington wrote: "On the play in question, which I have carefully reviewed, you made no effort to tackle the player or break up the pass (as did one of your teammates on the same play), and instead engaged in what appears to be a simply gratuitous effort to punish your opponent after the pass to him has been deflected by your teammate."

No penalty was called on the play.

Harrison has been fined more than $100,000 for various hits during his nine-year career.

The hit on Rice was Harrison's third serious rules violation in 18 games. A week earlier, he was fined $12,500 for spearing Kansas City running back Priest Holmes while he was down.

NFL spokesman Joe Browne said the appeal probably will be heard by Jeff Pash, the league's executive vice president and general counsel.

Harrison will be accompanied by Ed McGuire, the Chargers' vice president of football operations. McGuire worked for the NFL for several years before joining the Chargers in 1998.

Asked whether he thought he was a marked man, Harrison said, "I try to play football the way it's supposed to be played. I just don't think it was to the point that I should get suspended."