Nathan Shepherd Suspended 6 games

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Defensive lineman Nathan Shepherd was inactive for the Jets in Week One and he’ll be missing many more games in the near future.

Shepherd told Tom Pelissero of NFL Media that he is facing a six-game suspension for multiple violations of the NFL’s performance-enhancing drug policy.

Unlike most players suspended for such violations, Shepherd has admitted to knowingly taking banned substances. He said he did it while trying to recover from multiple injuries this offseason.

“All that was going on, I was coming off of a subpar season and a new coaching staff, new playbook, new everything,” Shepherd said. “In my mindset, I didn’t feel very confident with how everything had gone thus far. In my mind, I was so prepared to come into this offseason and have a successful offseason and train very hard. I felt that because of these limitations, I wasn’t going to be able to do that. I made a rash decision, an unwise decision and a selfish decision to look to certain PEDs in order to help me with that recovery process so I would be ready to go.”

No official announcement of the suspension has taken place at this point, but it sounds like it should be coming soon.

UPDATE 3:49 p.m. ET: The Jets have indeed announced the suspension. It will open up a spot on their 53-man roster for the next six games.
 
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This one surprises me totally. One of my best friends is his neighbor in Canada and this isn't the character that he describes him as having. I'm blown away by this.
 
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this is what pisses me off, his statement

“All that was going on, I was coming off of a subpar season and a new coaching staff, new playbook, new everything,” Shepherd said. “In my mindset, I didn’t feel very confident with how everything had gone thus far. In my mind, I was so prepared to come into this offseason and have a successful offseason and train very hard. I felt that because of these limitations, I wasn’t going to be able to do that. I made a rash decision, an unwise decision and a selfish decision to look to certain PEDs in order to help me with that recovery process so I would be ready to go.”
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so instead of working hard, he had to cheat his way to be better, go away!
 
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gmf1369 said:
this is what pisses me off, his statement



so instead of working hard, he had to cheat his way to be better, go away!
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Oh please - such BS I guess Tiger woods is a cheater too because he got eye surgery which dramatically improved his golf game and I guess half the worlds musicians are cheaters because they use beta blockers to overcome stage fright, and damn those marathon and cyclists and iron men who use hyperbolic chambers to increase their oxygen levels, to hell with them all....While we are at it lets ban pain killers because you know if they cant feel pain they play better....ooops that is performance enhancing too. Oh wait while we are at it lets kill modern science - football players should go back to the 60's when they didnt lift weights because they thought size made them slow.

Dumb dumb dumb comment dude. Don't be that guy. Yea it sucks, and it sucks that he didnt have enough talent to get by. But seriously million dollar athletes are not a kiddy game.
 
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