Off-Season Suspension Blotter Started...

It's July again, and you know what that means...

It's time to show the NFL's hypocrisy again, with another off-season full of drug suspensions already racking up...

In chronological order (with maybe one or two exceptions), courtesy of Wikipedia (lost salaries courtesy of Spotrac):

• Dallas Cowboys:  Randy Gregory:  As I reported last year, banned from the league January 5, 2017 for at least three offenses against the drug policy last year -- at least one additional season, making it 30 out of the 32 games last season and this he's been suspended.  Cannot apply for 2018 reinstatement until November 7.  Gregory has failed at least four drug tests, including the one at the combine in 2015.  Costs him $781,813 this year, but has one more year in Dallas under his current contract.
• Free Agent:  J'Marcus Webb.  After being cut by the Seahawks in November, was suspended for the first four games of the 2017 season, substance abuse policy.  (January 24, 2017)
• Green Bay Packers:  Letroy Guion:  4 game suspension, PEDs.  $639,215 is the hit he takes for that ban. (March 7, 2017)  
• Guion was arrested last week in Hawaii for DUI, as well.  Guion was also suspended three games for a 2015 marijuana possession and firearms charge!
• New York Jets:  Jalin Marshall:  4 game suspension, PED's.    He loses $128,038.  (March 7, 2017)
• Baltimore Ravens:  Kenneth Dixon:  4 game suspension:  PED's.  $149,610 is his hit.  (March 9, 2017)
• New York Jets:  Austin Sefarian-Jenkins:  4 games:  Substance abuse.  $187,884.  (March 15, 2017)
• Free Agent (at the time):  T.J. MacDonald:  8 games.  2016 DUI for drugs arrest. (March 29, 2017)  
• The incident and resulting suspension ended his tenure with the Los Angeles Rams.  Two days after the suspension, he was signed by the Miami Dolphins.  $364,705 is his hit.
• New York Jets:  Nick Marshall:  4 games, PEDs.  His hit is $144,706... (April 14, 2017)
• And the league is going to see at least some of that.  For having three players suspended, the New York Jets became the first team this offseason to trigger the Club Remittance Policy penalty (as yet unknown).
• Washington Redskins:  Trent Murphy:  4 games, PED's.  $334,861 lost.  (April 14, 2017)
• Free Agent:  Brandon Bostick:  4 games.  No disclosed reason, but the Jets decided not to re-sign him.  Bostick would've been the fourth Jet to be suspended. (April 20, 2017)
• Dallas Cowboys:  Shaquelle Evans:  4 games, substance abuse.  He's on the Cowboys practice squad and is bouncing around the league... (April 21, 2017)
• ... which means for the second year in a row, the league is getting a check from the Cowboys for the Club Remittance Policy penalty, as Rolando McClain still is technically indefinitely thrown out of the league for missing a drug test and getting suspended a third time in 2016.
• Los Angeles Rams:  Troy Hill:  2 games, 2016 DUI arrest that got him released from the Rams and temporarily demoted to the practice squad.  $72,352 is his salary loss. (May 1, 2017)
• Houston Texans:  Max Bullough:  4 games, PEDs.  Also loses $72,352. (May 4, 2017)
• Free Agent:  Justin Gilbert:  4 games, Substance Abuse.  (May 25, 2017)
• To which Gilbert has now tacked on an entire additional year.  He's thrown out of the league for at least that long for another violation. Given his track record, his brief NFL career is probably over. (June 22, 2017)
• Free Agent:  James Ihedigbo:  4 games, undisclosed.  Career probably over. (June 1, 2017)
• Buffalo Bills:  Walter Powell:  4 games, PEDs.  $162,352 lost. (June 8, 2017)
• Detroit Lions:  Khyri Thornton:  6 games, substance abuse.  Probably means there was an arrest of some kind involved in there.  $379,408 lost. (June 20, 2017)
• Dallas Cowboys:  David Irving:  4 games, PEDs.  $144,706 is his loss... (June 28, 2017)
• This now makes FOUR Cowboys suspended at least the first four games of this year, meaning a larger check for the league.  A 2016 article when they had three indicates the fine was more than $250,000.  This one could be FAR larger, with two players now banned from the league for drugs, and two others, at least suspended to date!
• Since Super Bowl 50, the Dallas Cowboys have had NINE drug suspensions.  Irving, Evans, Gregory three times, McClain three times (after a 2015 4-game suspension), and DeMarcus Lawrence.
• Free Agent:  Karlos Williams has been thrown out of the league at least a year.  After Pittsburgh cut him in March, he was suspended June 28, 2017 for his third strike against the Substance Abuse policy, with 4 games still to serve on a 2016 suspension that exited him from Pittsburgh.  He now cannot play until at least Game 5 of the 2018 season.
• Baltimore Ravens:  Darren Waller:  Thrown out of the league for the entire 2017 season for a continued problem with marijuana, which garnered him at least one previous NFL suspension and two bans while he was in college at Georgia Tech.  Probably costs him in the neighborhood of about $500,000 -- no word yet on whether the Ravens will keep him.  (June 30, 2017)

A couple of carryovers:

• Buffalo's Seantrel Henderson still has five games to serve on his suspension for marijuana usage in 2016.
• Tampa's Doug Martin has three games to serve for an Adderall suspension that cost him $15,000,000 in guaranteed money.