DeAndre Hopkins: NFL suspends Arizona Cardinals star receiver for six video games for violating performance-enhancing medication coverage | NFL Information

The three-time All-Professional and five-time Professional Bowler missed Arizona’s final 4 regular-season video games in 2021 and their playoff loss on account of hamstring and knee accidents; the Cardinals traded for Baltimore Ravens wideout Marquise Brown through the 2022 NFL Draft final week

DeAndre Hopkins will miss the primary six video games of the 2022 NFL season after violating the league’s coverage on performance-enhancing medication

Arizona Cardinals star receiver DeAndre Hopkins has been suspended for six video games with out pay for violating the NFL’s coverage on performance-enhancing medication, the league introduced on Monday.

In keeping with NFL.com, the suspension comes after Hopkins ‘produced a optimistic take a look at consequence for a prohibited substance plus a diuretic or masking agent/try to substitute, dilute or adulterate a specimen/try to control a take a look at consequence’. Hopkins withdrew his enchantment on the suspension, based on NFL Community Insider Ian Rapoport.

The three-time All-Professional and five-time Professional Bowler missed Arizona’s final 4 regular-season video games in 2021 and their playoff loss to eventual Tremendous Bowl champions, Los Angeles Rams, on account of hamstring and knee accidents.

The 29-year-old caught eight landing passes in his second season with the Cardinals however set profession lows in catches (42) and yards (574).

The Cardinals added a receiver through the 2022 NFL Draft, buying Marquise Brown by way of commerce from the Baltimore Ravens for the No 23 general decide. Brown was a 1,000-yard receiver final season and was a university team-mate of Arizona quarterback Kyler Murray’s when the 2 have been at Oklahoma.

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Hopkins’s suspension additionally seemingly means a much bigger function for Brown, veteran receiver A.J. Inexperienced and second-year standout Rondale Moore, together with tight finish Zach Ertz.

Hopkins has been one of many league’s most efficient receivers throughout his nine-year profession, which incorporates six 1,000-yard seasons. He performed his first seven seasons with the Houston Texans earlier than being traded in 2020 to the Cardinals.

Hopkins remains to be allowed to take part within the workforce’s preseason video games forward of the 2022 marketing campaign.