You might have heard that DeAndre Hopkins was suspended for six games for using Performance Enhancing Drugs.
He has waived his right to appeal, and the punishment is final.
Arizona Cardinals star wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins has been suspended six games for violating the NFL’s policy on performance-enhancing drugs, the league announced Monday.
The suspension comes four days after the Cardinals traded their first-round pick in the 2022 draft to the Baltimore Ravens on Thursday for wide receiver Marquise Brown.
Hopkins will be allowed to play during the preseason and practice with the team until the beginning of the 2022 regular season.
Hopkins, a three-time first-team All-Pro and five-time Pro Bowl selection, is set to turn 30 on June 6 and is coming off an injury-riddled season that led to the lowest output of his career.
He missed three games in the middle of last season with an ankle injury and the final four games of the regular season, plus Arizona’s wild-card loss to the Los Angeles Rams, after suffering an MCL injury in Week 14 on Monday Night Football. The knee was surgically repaired in December. In February, while making interview rounds at the Super Bowl in Los Angeles, Hopkins said on SiriusXM NFL Radio that his rehab was going great and he was ahead of schedule.
Hopkins finished with 572 yards and eight touchdowns on 42 catches a year after having 1,407 yards. Arizona went 3-4 without Hopkins during the regular season and was then blown out in the playoffs, losing 34-11 to the Rams.
You may have also heard that he was popped for three different types of steroids and one low-grade beaver tranquilizer on social media.
This is false but funny nevertheless. It is especially funny considering that Hopkins didn’t want to take the Vaccine but had no problem with putting illegal substances in his body.
Flip the pages for the funny tweets about the beaver.
